The Conservative branch of Amerin Judaism has formally approved same-sex marriage ceremoni, nearly six years after liftg a ban on ordag gays and lbians.
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CONSERVATIVE JEWS APPROVE GAY WEDDG GUIL
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First, should the Uned Stat ernment legalize same-sex marriage, offerg homosexual upl the same legal benefs that married heterosexual upl have?
US JEWS AMONG THE MOST SUPPORTIVE OF GAY MARRIAGE
Renstctnist JudaismThe Renstctnist movement exprsed s support for the full cln of gay men and lbians all aspects of Jewish life s 1992 Report of the Renstctnist Commissn on Homosexualy.
The report affirmed the hols of homosexual relatnships and the need to affirm them a Jewish ntext: “As we celebrate the love between heterosexual upl, so too we celebrate the love between gay or lbian Jews. Renstctnist Rabbi Rebec Alpert, thor of Like Bread on the Ser Plate: Jewish Lbians and the Transformatn of Tradn and -thor of Explorg Judaism: A Renstctnist Approach, has argued that the Jewish prciple of enomic jtice mands support for civil gay and lbian marriage, bee the absence of legal benefs for same-genr upl n e them signifint fancial harm. The Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis (CCAR), the profsnal associatn of Reform rabbis, passed a rolutn 1996 opposg “ernmental efforts to ban gay and lbian marriage.