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Marriage re-defined
- Marriage Equality in Australia | Australian Federal Government"From 9 December 2017, sex or gender no longer affects the right to marry under Australian law and same-sex marriage became legal in Australia."
- The Uniting Church's Marriage Conundrum"In July 2018, six months after the Commonwealth Parliament redefined marriage as a relationship between 'two people' rather than 'a man and a woman', the national Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia gave its ministers and marriage celebrants the 'freedom to decide whether the minister's or celebrant's religious beliefs allow the minister or celebrant to accept requests to celebrate marriages as authorised under the Marriage Act' ... "
- Pope Francis, Marriage and the Plebiscite"Pope Francis grounds his teaching on marriage and the family in “the Book of Genesis, when God completes his work of creation and makes his masterpiece; the masterpiece is man and woman ... "
- The Catholic Church, Marriage & Same-Sex Attraction"The Catholic Church sees marriage as a covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life which, by its very nature, is for the good of the spouses and for their having children and educating them."
- Sydney Anglicans ban same-sex marriage on hundreds of church properties"As a row of purple-clad gay and lesbian churchgoers sat quietly watching in the public gallery, the Sydney Anglican Synod on Monday night voted in favour of a policy that will prevent same-sex marriages, parties or events that might advocate "expressions of human sexuality contrary to our doctrine of marriage" on about a thousand church-owned properties ... "
- Can the Catholic Church ‘Evolve’ on L.G.B.T. Rights?- The New York TimesA growing number of Americans now broadly support equal rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people. It’s tempting to view this as inevitable, but less than a decade ago many Democrats, including Barack Obama, didn’t even publicly support same-sex marriage. The speed at which L.G.B.T. rights became a mainstream issue, including for many religious denominations, represents nothing less than a dizzying cultural transformation. What does this revolution mean for the Catholic Church, an ancient institution that thinks in centuries, and holds a view of human sexuality at odds with the shifting cultural winds?
