State Roadblocks Could Complicate Marriage Equality Momentum: If the Supreme Court doesn’t end bans on same-sex couples’ marriages in all 50 states this June, then the constitutional bans in most of the states across the country could prove a stumbling block to the current momentum in the years to come.
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GOP candidate says he opposes discrimination of any kind, but marriage is a state issue
Josh Thomson is the latest Mixed Martial Arts fighter to express his backward views about gay marriage. Following the suspension of fellow MMA fighter Matt Mitrone for hurling hate speech at trans fighter Fallon Fox back in April, Thomson took to his Facebook page this week to ask the question “Should you be allowed to marry whoever you want? Before you answer that, should u be allowed to have more than 1 wife?”
As expected, the responses to his question were more than critical.
Thomson joined the discussion in the post’s comments section shortly thereafter, comparing marriage equality to polygamy, pedophilia, bestiality, and incest:
“I’m only asking a question. My next question is, should siblings be allowed to marry siblings? My point is, where do you draw the line? I personally don’t care who you marry but I also am smart enough to know that it opens a gateway to men/women trying to marry young kids, siblings marrying each other and people having multiple husbands and wives. You have to think all of these things are okay otherwise your stopping them from being happy as well which is hypocrisy. Equality doesn’t stop with gay marriage, it just starts with it.”
The U.S. Catholic Bishops are threatening to cut off funds to groups that serve the poor in Illinois because they’re affiliated with groups that endorse marriage equality.
Polls shows change in attitudes - especially among seniors - since voters passed Proposition 8
More and more religious individuals support marriage equality, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
The study found that a majority of both Catholics and white mainline Protestants now support marriage equality. Support for same-sex marriage has increased across the board even among the most traditionally homophobic groups; 23% of white evangelicals now support marriage equality, up from 13% in 2001. In addition, fewer people report that supporting same-sex marriage goes against their religious beliefs.
A third of the people who participated in the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life said their minds changed on marriage equality because someone they know — either family, friend, or other acquaintance — came out to them as LGBT. Equal percentages of people, 18%, said they now support marriage equality because it’s either inevitable and the world is changing, or because they think the government should no longer dictate marriage on a personal level.
As if it needed to be said, support for marriage equality among people who aren’t religiously affiliated is at an all-time high. The more you know!
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A male protester attempted to disrupt the final of the French Open tennis competition in Paris this afternoon in opposition to the country’s recently passed equal marriage law.
The government in Scotland, UK, has confirmed it will introduce a bill to allow same-sex marriage within the month. A special consultation on a ‘Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill’ came to an end in March this year, however its findings have yet to be made public.
Two men who married one another on an American Indian reservation in Michigan, which bans same-sex marriage, have been invited to the White House.
The last Australian state to decriminalize same-sex marriage has pledged to continue to spend $50,000 a year for at least the next three years on projects to eliminate anti-LGBT hate crimes…
The debate about marriage equality often centers, however discretely, on an appeal to the Bible. Unfortunately, such appeals often reflect a lack of biblical literacy on the part of those who use that complex collection of texts as an authority to enact modern social policy.
As academic biblical scholars, we wish to clarify that the biblical texts do not support the frequent claim that marriage between one man and one woman is the only type of marriage deemed acceptable by the Bible’s authors.
The Church of England has said that it accepts that there is a clear majority in Parliament to introduce same-sex marriage and that it will therefore end its opposition to changing the law.
But 45% in Pew Research Poll still think engaging in homosexual behavior is a sin.
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