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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. More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). In 2005, the erng body of the Amerin Baptist Church USA affirmed that “God’s sign for sexual timacy plac wh the ntext of marriage between one man and one woman” and that “homosexualy is patible wh Biblil teachg.
” In 2006, the church’s Pacific Southwt regnal board (which clus church California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona) spl om the nomatn bee the nomatn’s natnal learship cled to penalize ngregatns that weled openly gay members. “Amerin Baptist Church USA: Rpons/Actns Pertag to Homosexualy” (2005) (PDF). Baptist Prs, “Spl Among Amerin Baptists Over Homosexualy Is Fal” (2006).
However, some Buddhists terpret the term to clu homosexualy. The Buddhist Channel, “Relign and Same-Sex Marriage”, “Homosexualy and Buddhism”.