Where Christian church, other religns stand on gay marriage | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

Acrdg to a recent study by Pew Rearch Center, the major relig groups Ameri that prohib gay marriag clu Amerin Baptist Church, Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats (Mormon), Islam, and Roman Catholicism.

The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed.

THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church. Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Overall, a solid majory of whe male Prottants (62%) now favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, wh jt 33% opposed, acrdg to a 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey. A new poll om the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life found, not surprisgly, that opposn to gay marriage and homosexualy is hight among the most relig.

Poignantly, homosexualy would seem to be the one topic that un the lears of the world’s fahs—an issue over which Frankl Graham and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed uld break bread.

The most fashnable argument agast is that unrm the stutn of marriage (and therefore fay and therefore society), but I n’t help but thk this is a poll-tted ia that don’t really get at the te feelgs of the advot; the Pew poll, few people opposg the notn of gay marriage offered that up as the ma reason. Though there are differenc the views of different fahs, nservative Prottants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, tradnal Jews, and Mlims share two fundamental antigay arguments. Christian Bible scholar Ben Whergton explas the views of the apostle Pl this way: “For Pl, not unlike other early Jewish wrers, homosexual behavr is perhaps the cleart example of how floutg sexual distctns is ultimately a rejectn of the Creator, who ma such distctns.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

But Whergton, a nservative scholar, go on to pot out that all sorts of ss volve the implic rejectn of God or His mandments and that homosexualy is on par wh vetons, malice, envy, murr, slanr, solence, rebelln agast parents, thlsns, ce, pri, and the like—not one sted to stroy society.

Tim, July 30, 2008, available at #; Michael Levenson, Governor signs law allowg out-of-state gays to wed, Boston Globe, July 31, 2008, available at breakg_news/2008/07/. & Rob Fretwell Wilson eds., 2008) (this book was based on a nference of legal scholars and practners late 2005); Alan Sears & Craig Osten, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom Today (2003); Roger Severo, Or for Poorer? Toklas Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Democratic Club, Alice Reports (July 2008), / See also John Wilrmuth, Obama oppos proposed ban on gay marriage, S.

Tim, June 10, 2006 (quotg Marc Stern scribg llisn between same-sex marriage and relig liberty as a "tra wreck"), available at /; Gallagher, supra note 12 (reportg that proment gay rights scholar, Chai Feldblum, perceiv genue nflicts between ee exercise of relign and sexual liberty), available at /000/012/.