It's hard to overstate jt how upset relig nservativ are about gay marriage. Gary Ber's e-mail newsletter about the Massachetts Supreme...
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.
) (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.
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
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. 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.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Though there are differenc the views of different fahs, nservative Prottants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, tradnal Jews, and Mlims share two fundamental antigay arguments.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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. 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.