Same-sex marriage: Same-sex marriage, the practice of marriage between two men or between two women. Although same-sex marriage has been regulated through law, religion, and custom in most countries of the world, the legal and social responses have ranged from celebration to criminalization.
Redefining marriage to include same-sex unions poses significant threats to the religious liberties of people who continue to believe that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Lesbian, gay, & bisexual topics All about gay marriages: (a.k.a. same-sex marriages & SSM), civil unions, & domestic partnerships).
Jun 26, 2015 · Map: Same-sex marriage in the United States. Updated 12:05 PM ET, Fri June 26, 2015. In a landmark opinion, a divided Supreme Court ruled on June 26th that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.
Religion, the Bible and same-sex marriages Menu The Bible & same-sex marriages (SSM) Sponsored link. There are no passages in the Bible that deal directly with same-sex marriage (SSM). Like abortion access, followers of the Bible have had to develop a position on SSM by using biblical passages dealing with othe
(UMNS/Kathleen Barry) Delegates and visitors gather at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Florida. This month the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to make same-sex marriage legal in the United States.
Support for same-sex marriage has increased substantially across virtually all demographic and partisan groups over the past decade. At the same time, there continue to be sharp differences in opinions about this issue – by generation, partisanship and ideology, race and religion. Millennials
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in the U.S state of Massachusetts since May 17, 2004, as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in Goodridge v.
Abstract : Some same-sex marriage activists might wish to exclude certain moral and religious viewpoints from the same-sex marriage debate. Evidence shows, however, that religion and moral argumentation are often harnessed in support of same-sex marriage.