Pew figur show 76% of Jews support legalizg gay marriage, higher than all but the youngt and most liberal of Democrats
Contents:
- US JEWS AMONG THE MOST SUPPORTIVE OF GAY MARRIAGE
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
US JEWS AMONG THE MOST SUPPORTIVE OF GAY MARRIAGE
* gay marriage judaism *
First, should the Uned Stat ernment legalize same-sex marriage, offerg homosexual upl the same legal benefs that married heterosexual upl have?
Renstctnist JudaismThe Renstctnist movement exprsed s support for the full cln of gay men and lbians all aspects of Jewish life s 1992 Report of the Renstctnist Commissn on Homosexualy.
The report affirmed the hols of homosexual relatnships and the need to affirm them a Jewish ntext: “As we celebrate the love between heterosexual upl, so too we celebrate the love between gay or lbian Jews. ” The Renstctnist movement today also fully endors efforts to legalize civil same-sex marriag and grant homosexual upl equal benefs. Renstctnist Rabbi Rebec Alpert, thor of Like Bread on the Ser Plate: Jewish Lbians and the Transformatn of Tradn and -thor of Explorg Judaism: A Renstctnist Approach, has argued that the Jewish prciple of enomic jtice mands support for civil gay and lbian marriage, bee the absence of legal benefs for same-genr upl n e them signifint fancial harm.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
The Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis (CCAR), the profsnal associatn of Reform rabbis, passed a rolutn 1996 opposg “ernmental efforts to ban gay and lbian marriage.
” The Unn of Amerin Hebrew Congregatns, the ngregatnal arm of the Reform movement, followed su 1997, rolvg to, “support secular efforts to promote legislatn which would provi civil marriage equal opportuny for gay men and lbians. In 1997, the CCAR Commtee on Rponsa voted by a majory of 7 to 2 that homosexual relatnships do not f wh the Jewish legal tegory of kiddh. It also lled for the velopment of sample ceremoni to be ed as a rource for those rabbis who plan to perform same-sex Jewish Conservative MovementUntil very recently same-sex marriage and other gay and lbian issu met wh ltle nsens the Conservative movement.
Then, June 2012 the Commtee of Jewish Law and Standards, voted 13-0 wh one abstentn to formally approve gay marriage ceremoni. The mtee veloped two kds of ceremoni that n be ed as a gui for a rabbi marryg a same-sex uple, neher of which nta kiddh, and also issued a gui to homosexual divorce. As social attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people have unrgone a sea change globally, stanc taken by Jewish lears and movements have changed along wh, same-sex marriag are regnized by the Reform, Conservative, Renewal and Renstctnist movements, and each movement’s rabbil semary ordas LGBTQ stunts.