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Contents:

• WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?
• WILL CHURCH BE FORCED TO CONDUCT GAY WEDDGS?
• WHAT ABOUT GAY CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO GET MARRIED CHURCH?
• FIRST CHURCH WEDDG FOR GAY UPLE IS HELD UK
• POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
• 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?

In an historic cisn on Friday, June 6, the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the Uned Stat. This is amazg news for gay people across the untry, whose right to get married was prevly geographilly hibed; prevly, gay upl uld only get married 37 stat. While there are no longer geographil boundari to same-sex marriage, there are still a few rtrictns on where same-sex upl n get who n relig spac n still refe to marry gay upl if is agast their church's beliefs.

"In other words, while church every state are now legally allowed to perform gay marriag, they are not legally obligated to perform those marriag.

WILL CHURCH BE FORCED TO CONDUCT GAY WEDDGS?

The Evangelil Lutheran Church of Ameri has a siar are many church that more universally accept gay marriage. Gay upl have been legally allowed to get married the Uned Church of Christ sce 2005.

For an ia of which specific church marry gay upl, the webse is a helpful rource, though thanks to this credible SCOTUS cisn, the webse will now have to expand s directory. Last June, Denmark’s parliament passed a law requirg church to nduct gay marriage ceremoni. When Maryland voters legalized gay marriage November, a nservative iend sent me a lk to the Denmark story to expla why he’d voted agast his state’s ballot iative.

WHAT ABOUT GAY CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO GET MARRIED CHURCH?

He says gay marriage don’t bother him, but he’s nvced that as tak root, church and other relig stutns will be forced to embrace . And the history of how our urts and ernment have safeguard those relig rights weigh fively on the si of allowg church to refe to perform weddgs for gay upl for as long as they so choose. I’m sayg that the law balanc the civil rights of gay people agast the civil rights of relig groups—and that ntt, the church (and mosqu and synagogu) w.

In theory, the ernment uld direct the behavr of church by mandatg that they perform gay unns or punishg those who don’t by nyg them benefs— particular, tax-exempt stat. But the same le most cidly do not apply to relig groups that discrimate agast women or gay people.

FIRST CHURCH WEDDG FOR GAY UPLE IS HELD UK

In s like the brought by gay people, the first qutn is whether state law prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, bee feral law do not. I’m happy to say I don’t thk this would fly the 21 stat (pl the District of Columbia) that do protect the rights of gay people.

But remember, we are still a long way om church beg forced to marry gay upl or hire gay misters. When stat have laws that prohib anti-gay discrimatn spac open to the public, they generally exempt “actual plac of worship, the anizatns they operate, and certa private anizatns, ” acrdg to this 2012 law review article.

POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

When the law was proposed last sprg, relig groups railed that would require church to rent buildgs to gay upl “for drag parti. Bee of the backlash, the cy uncil reworked the proposal, leavg out public spac entirely, and June put to effect only limed protectns agast beg fired or evicted for beg gay. “They told people pastors would have to perform gay marriag, ” Graber told me.

It’s jt wrong to spook voters about gay rights by argug that gay people are g for their church. If that ever chang, will be bee we’re as uned about the pernic nature of anti-gay discrimatn as we are about racial discrimatn. " It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns.

" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. " The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law.

3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

If the Church of England don't accept gay marriage- where do leave the thoands of gay Anglins same sex partnerships who want to get married? Conservativ eager to show jt how "progrsive" the party is will harp on for s about how Labour weren't able to get gay marriage on the statute books, but THEY were...

Wh each and every bishop wheeled onto Rad 4 to argue agast the impendg doom of lovg homos gettg hched, their obssn wh semantics his some ep seated homophobia. Marriage is a load word; so is gay. Regardls of what the ernment cis on same sex marriage, I still won't be able to get a Gay Upgra and marry my parish church.

That's nothg new, I'm ed to where will gay and lbian Anglins get married? RelatedrelignGay Rightschurch of englandLbiananglin churchBefore You GoYou May Like. Two women have married what is believed to be the UK's first gay weddg held a Tipper and Barb Burn tied the knot at the Metropolan muny church (MCC) Bournemouth, Dorset, on law allowed same-sex upl to marry on 29 March, but this was the first ceremony to be nducted a relig buildg, the MCC Rev Dwayne Man, who officiated at the ceremony, said the church had taken pri celebratg diversy and lled a historic and Tipper, who have attend MCC for 15 years, said they were surprised to disver their weddg was a first.