<p><strong>The qutn: Is gay marriage a relig issue?:</strong> Should full marriage be extend to same-sex upl? And do have anythg to do wh relign?</p>
Contents:
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG FREEDOM: WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY?
- IS GAY MARRIAGE A RELIG ISSUE?
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Send, many people, cludg some profsnal gay-rights activists, enthiastilly mix relign wh law and polics support of same-sex marriage. Some proponents of same-sex marriage have suggted that relign is the primary obstacle to refg marriage to clu homosexual unns.
“[R]elign is the chief obstacle for gay and lbian polil progrs, ” ttifi one expert. [1] Says one activist, “There’s no road to succs that don’t go through relign-based homophobia. Far om disclaimg relig support for same-sex marriage, profsnal gay-rights activists wele and enurage .
GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG FREEDOM: WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY?
The Natnal Relig Learship Roundtable, which supported the multi-fah event on the steps of the San Francis Cy Hall scribed above, is nvened by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force. Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn, se the movement for same-sex marriage an opportuny “to make the se for” the “normative moral equivalence” of “gay and heterosexual sex”—an argument, Profsor Feldblum observ, “that is hardly ever heard polil circl.
Rutgers Law Profsor Carlos Ball believ that the stggle for “societal acceptance” of same-sex relatnships entails a “ontal attack” on the “eply held views of many Amerins regardg the (im)moraly of homosexualy. [30] The thors, who clu Profsors Feldblum and Ball, believe that “current advot for gay rights are not really engagg their opponents unls they are engaged wh the moral nature of their opponents’ views and arguments. Eskridge, Jr., Equaly Practice: Civil Unns and the Future of Gay Rights 237 (2002).
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IS GAY MARRIAGE A RELIG ISSUE?
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