The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.
Contents:
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND WILL NOT REGNIZE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ BUT WILL ALLOW CERTA CEREMONI
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — 'The issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a stggle our time to the one over race,' said Michael Curry, pridg bishop of the Epispal Church. * england gay marriage *
The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage. As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot. ) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.
It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships. “I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple. Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”.
Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg. But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag. A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl.
GAY MARRIAGE
Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND WILL NOT REGNIZE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ BUT WILL ALLOW CERTA CEREMONI
”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult.
The meetg as support for marriage for gay upl is growg wh the church, most notably among evangelil members of the epispate who have long opposed .