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Contents:

• BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE END OF DAYS
• GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL

BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Bible vers related to Gay Marriage om the Kg Jam Versn (KJV) by Relevance -.

Search the Kg Jam Versn (KJV) for more referenc about Gay Marriage... Current vol advot of a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage ought to nsir the old Che adage, “Be reful what you wish for, bee you may get . A gay marriage amendment, if adopted, uld produce untend and fateful nsequenc for the U.

The amendment failed spectacular fashn to achieve the temperance movement’s sired rult, as is also likely to happen wh a gay marriage amendment. An anti-gay marriage amendment is likely to generate many untend nsequenc.

THE GAY-MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: A DANGER TO THE CONSTUTN

Refg gay unns legal sanctn will certaly not prevent the formatn of lovg and endurg gay and lbian relatnships. Marriage self uld also be an unexpected victim of the anti-gay amendment.

That special missn nclud wh 53 percent of church lears and lay people votg to tighten language on s same-sex marriage ban at a general nference last Febary, a measure sayg “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Epispalians followed su 2018, expandg the right of gay ngregants to get married all ngregatns.

Pope Francis has drawn acclaim for sayg “Who am I to judge gay people?, ” but the Catholic Church has shown no sign of changg s strict anti-LGBTQ doctre.

GAY MARRIAGE

Siarly, the Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the US, ntu to margalize LGBTQ ngregants, wh msag that have bee culture-war talkg pots agast queer rights — like homosexualy is not a “valid alternative liftyle” and “genr inty is termed by blogil sex and not by one’s self-perceptn. There are few biblil vers that addrs homosexualy at all, and most of those are not directed at homosexualy per se.

Opponents of same-sex marriage routely ce seven vers the Christian Bible as nmng homosexualy and llg a s. But when taken ntext, the lsons speak not agast homosexualy self, but rather agast rape, child moltatn, btialy, and other practic that hurt others and promise a person’s relatnship wh God.

J never said one word agast homosexualy.

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE END OF DAYS

Never once did J refer to what we ll homosexualy as a s. Although opponents of same-sex marriage claim that lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr unns vlate biblil prcipl, no vers the Bible explicly addrs gay marriage or mted same-sex relatnships.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.