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I think the majority just take the state’s current version as the definition of marriage. And more fall in line as the decades pass and the state keeps whatever application of marriage was controversial. Otherwise why did all the religious groups that accepted ‘gay marriage’ wait until the state they happened to be in also accepted it before they married their gay members? And look at how many say things like ‘the state accepting gay marriage will destroy marriage?’
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CATHOLIC groups haven't accepted "gay marriage" and neither have some of the Protestant denominations. The Catholic Church CANNOT accept homosexual unions as "marriage." It CANNOT.
Islam forbids "gay marriage." You would THINK that we Christians could do as well as or better than Islam.

I wonder WHICH Protestant denominations accept homosexual marriages. I haven't a CLUE. Do YOU have any idea? I know that there isn't any ONE voice of any Protestant denomination except the Bishop of Canterbury...and I'm not so sure of his opinion.

CATHOLIC groups haven’t accepted “gay marriage” and neither have some of the Protestant denominations.

Yes, there is an official position. But notice the lack of discipline. If there is no discipline, do you really believe the official position?

Every religious group that did accept it waited until the state actually changed it’s law to accept it for themselves. All the groups had pretty much already split by that point, the libs took the old names, the conservative Christians formed new groups that haven’t accepted ‘gay marriage’. My point was that religious groups actually wouldn’t marry their own gays until the state agreed with them, so to them the state’s version is the actual version they go by.

“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”

-—Pope Leo XIII, 1880, Arcanum (on Christian marriage)

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