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Marriage Equality Around the World
The Human Rights Campaign tracks developments in the legal recognition of same-sex marriage around the earth. Working through a worldwide network of HRC global alumni and partners, we lift up the voices of group, national and regional advocates and divide tools, resources, and lessons learned to empower movements for marriage equality.
Current State of Marriage Equality
There are currently 38 countries where same-sex marriage is legal: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the Combined Kingdom, the Joined States of America and Uruguay.
These countries have legalized marriage equality through both legislation and court decisions.
Countries that Legalized Marriage Equality in
Liechtenstein: On May 16, , Liechtenstein's gove
Tag Archives: Gay marriage
An expose letter to students about the postal survey on same-sex marriage
Posted on18 August byGraeme Stuart
Here is a imitate of an open letter I sent to my students studying a course on community engagement. Even though I have concerns about the postal vote, as we are having it, I hope there is a very lofty … Continue reading →
Posted inBeing an academic, Social change|TaggedGay marriage, Marriage equality, Same-sex marriage, Teaching|
3 reasons I do not sustain a postal vote on same-sex marriage
Posted on14 August byGraeme Stuart
Like most other Western countries there is increasing support for legalising gay marriage in Australia. We are about to include a national postal vote, run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), to discover whether or not Australians support legalising … Continue reading →
Posted inFamilies & parenting, Social change|TaggedCommunity engagement, Gay marriage, Marriage equality, Same-sex marriage, Social justice|
Some good articles/links &#; same-sex parents
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The gay people against homosexual marriage
For many years, the conservative institution of marriage was never on the gay campaign agenda, says activist Yasmin Nair, who co-founded a group provocatively named Against Equality. But it became an objective in the early s - regretfully, in her view - when the movement emerged from the seismic shock of the Aids epidemic, depleted of political energy.
But gay people who are in favour of same-sex marriage trust anything short of marriage is not equality.
You rarely hear arguments against it by gay people themselves, says Stampp Corbin, publisher of magazine LGBT Weekly, who sees strong parallels with the civil rights movement.
"I'm African American and there were many things society stopped us from doing. When we were slaves we couldn't join, we couldn't marry outside our race and most notably, we couldn't divide facilities with white people.
"So when I notice LGBT people saying the same thing: 'I don't think gay and woman loving woman people should get married', is it different from slaves saying: 'I
Community Of Christ OKs Same-sex attracted Marriage And Clergy
Whether its NBA player Jason Collins coming out as gay, or another politician explaining his “evolving” views on sexuality, recent news headlines seem to reveal Americans’ rapidly changing attitudes toward sexual orientation.
Here in Kansas City, the Society of Christ church recently added its voice to the chorus of those in favor of equal treatment for gays and lesbians. Two weeks ago, delegates from across the country came to the church’s world headquarters in Independence and voted to allow same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay and lesbians ministers in its US churches.
In , the group now famous as Community of Christ began to diverge from the majority of the Latter day Saints followers. Since that time, the Community of Christ group has shifted dramatically in policy from the larger Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon church. Until , People of Christ was known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Both Latter-day Saints churches hold the novel of Mormon as a consecrated text,