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On Marriage: In 2014, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to change its definition of marriage, allowing its pastors to officiate same-sex marriages wherever gay marriage is legal. In addition, by a vote of 429–175, leaders of the 1.76 million-member Church voted during the biennial General Assembly in Detroit to change the denomination's ...
Gay people, including those in same-sex civil partnerships, are allowed to become clerics but are expected to remain celibate. [138] The Huffington Post wrote in a 2014 article that gay clergy who enter into same-sex marriage or bless same-sex marriages risk being defrocked and losing their jobs. [139]
Lorie Smith, an evangelical Christian who believes marriage is only between a man and a woman, has taken her fight to refuse to make wedding websites for same-sex couples to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue of marriage had enough appeal within the gay and lesbian community that in April 1993, as part of the demonstrations surrounding the gay rights march in Washington, D.C., about 1,500 same-sex couples staged a mass wedding ceremony with "a dozen ministers, organ music, photographers and rice" at the National Museum of Natural History ...
On several issues, Pence has rocked the boat with controversy, ranging from gay rights, abortion, and even cigarette smoking. Marriage equality and "societal collapse"
“Make gay marriage illegal again. This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme,” Schriver wrote. Same-sex marriage has been legally protected in the United States since 2015 when the ...
However, Miller argues that the Bible supports the idea of monogamous relationships, including gay marriage. [44] Robin Kar argues that same-sex marriage is partly the result of certain religious and spiritual developments within Judeo-Christian society, which led to love-based marriages in the West. [45]
Carl Sciortino, a gay activist and first-time candidate, drew support from supporters of same-sex marriage, but ran largely on traditional issues like education, taxation, and health care, and narrowly defeated a 16-year veteran and same-sex marriage opponent in the Democratic primary on September 14. [61]