Posted on 06/27/2015 10:51:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages has no legal force outside the United States, but gay rights activists in many parts of the world believe the court ruling will help their cause.
In the Philippines, in India, in Australia and elsewhere, gay rights advocates think the U.S. ruling may help change attitudes, just as American activists—and judges, educators and legislators—had earlier been influenced by the easy acceptance of same-sex marriage in some European countries, where the laws were changed smoothly without much fuss.
In today’s wired world, political movements cross national boundaries in the blink of an eye, and the trend toward legal acceptance of same-sex marriage is gaining pace, though still rejected outright in some parts of the globe. The U.S. is neither laggard nor leader in this movement, which reflects a fundamental change in public views in many parts of the world, but the ruling of its highest court is expected to have a ripple effect elsewhere. …
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India will never allow it. Sodomy is still criminalized there, thank God. Let’s hope the Pinoys have their heads screwed on too.
It has NO LEGAL FORCE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
It was an unconstitutional decision and a violation of the oaths of those who voted in favor of it.
States need to take the position that this is not legitimate and to go about their business as if this decision was nothing more than an editorial from some liberal professor.
5.56mm
We are going to be known as the country that codified BF-ing. Wow what a legacy.
If GOD wanted mankind to live and behave as animals would not Our Creator have made mankind reproduce themselves using the same method ?
There’s a “leading from behind” joke in here somewhere.
No animals use the south end of the alimentary canal for reproduction or otherwise. And when not in “heat”, animals are asexual. Animals never do what sodomites do.
Neither Iran or Saudi Arabia will show any “tolerance”
Hindu body ‘celebrates’ decision
By Narayan Lakshman
The Hindu
June 27, 2015
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling affirming marriage equality this week has spurred further debate on how different religious communities view LGBT rights and social surveys on this subject underscore a wide variation in views across religions.
Shortly after the ruling was announced the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) released a statement saying that it “celebrated” the decision, especially as the organisation had, over the past few years, joined numerous amicus briefs at the Supreme Court and lower court levels supporting marriage equality.
“HAF’s work on this issue is consistent with our view that Hinduism provides no spiritual basis to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” noted Swaminathan Venkataraman, a member of the group’s Executive Council and an author of its policy paper on “Hinduism and Homosexuality.”
However not all Hindus extend this sort of approach to marriage equality for the LGBT community.
In April this year a poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute, which surveyed 40,000 people across the U.S. in 2014, came up with the finding that only 55 per cent of Hindus in the U.S. supported same-sex marriages, compared to 56 per cent for Orthodox Christians, 60 per cent for Catholics, 62 per cent for mainline Protestants, 77 per cent for Jewish Americans, and a whopping 82 per cent for Buddhists.
Muslims and White Evangelical Christians, however, ranked lower than Hindus in their support, at 42 and 28 per cent respectively.
Jindal slams court
These results appeared to find voice in the reactions of some political leaders to the ruling, including of Indian-American Governor of Louisiana, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal.
Mr. Jindal, who is a convert from Hinduism to Evangelical Christianity and this week announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential race, wrote on his website, “Marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that,” in the process also lashing out at the highest court in the land because it apparently “follows public opinion polls, and tramples on States’ rights that were once protected by the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.”
In India, Section 377 of the Penal Code criminalises acts of homosexual sex and the administration of Narendra Modi has not taken actions to take forward the debate on this colonial-era law.
Only 55 per cent of Hindus in the U.S. support same-sex marriages, says poll
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/hindu-body-celebrates-decision/article7359659.ece
Religion in America is entirely different to religion worldwide. Indian Hindus I have met consider their American counterparts a joke
Religion in America is entirely different to religion worldwide. Indian Hindus I have met consider their American counterparts a joke
Never happen...just means we are in store for a crushing wave of gay immigrants all seeking asylum because they can’t get married in their own countries.
OK, let’s have Prez Zero nominate someone named John Smith as ambassador to Iran or some other “religion of peace” country. John Smith accepts, and announces that his husband, Gene Smith, is going to accompany him. Is there a dilemma here???
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