Where should we, as Christians, stand on gay marriage?

Contents:

• GAY - MEANG TA
• WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?

GAY - MEANG TA

India's Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison but has yet to legalize same-sex marriag.

India crimalized gay sex five years ago Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy.

After s of grassroots activism and tense lobbyg at policy levels, the Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. Sce the law India only regniz heterosexual marriag, children of gay upl lose out on legal regnn for both parents. A powerful right-wg figure has exprsed support for LGBTQ rights Sce there is no legal regnn of same-sex marriage, gay upl whose fai threaten them wh vlence bee they are opposed to gay relatnships have no protectn unr the law.

WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Earlier this year, Bhagwat said that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. In December 2021, the Uttarakhand High Court orred a gay uple to be protected by the police.

In November 2019, the Punjab and Haryana High Court orred the police to protect a gay uple threatened by their fai. Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the most powerful Hdu natnalist anizatn, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, said an terview that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. Siarly, nearly three-quarters (73%) of Amerins unr the age of 40 say they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally – 16 percentage pots higher than the share of Amerins 40 and olr who agree (57%).

In South Ameri, 67% of Argentians and 52% of Brazilians support the right of gay and lbian people to marry.

Roughly ne--ten Indonia oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry, cludg 88% who say they strongly oppose . In Nigeria, where homosexualy is illegal, only 2% adults say they support the right of gays and lbians to marry. In 12 of the untri surveyed, adults unr 40 are more likely than their olr unterparts to say they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

In 14 of the surveyed untri, women are more likely than men to say they support allowg gays and lbians to marry legally. In 17 of the surveyed untri, people wh more formal tn are more likely than those wh ls tn to support allowg gays and lbians to marry. In the untri, those on the iologil left are signifintly more likely than those on the right to favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

In Swen, by parison, jt 20% of adults nsir relign important to them and 92% favor allowg gay and lbian people to wed. 3 of 3 | Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg sexual mory rights activist Nepal, speaks wh the Associated Prs durg an terview Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023.

Gay rights activists and upl Nepal on Thursday were celebratg an terim orr issued by the untry’s Supreme Court enablg them to register same-sex marriag for the first time.

3 of 3Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg sexual mory rights activist Nepal, speaks wh the Associated Prs durg an terview Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023.

Practilly, they n register their marriage and their rights n be immediately exercised, ” said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg LGBTQ+ rights activist Nepal. However, 38% of Estonians still nsir homosexualy to be unacceptable.