Civil Constitution Of The Clergy Quotes

We can move to legalize same-gender civil marriage without harming any religious institution or dictating any change to the beliefs and practices of any faith. Religious opposition to civil marriage for same-gender couples irrelevant to the civil, public debate. You're opposed to gay marriage on religious grounds? Fine! Don't authorize your clergy to act as an agent of the State in any such unions. But don't deprive the rest of, who believe that such rites are good and holy, of our constitutional rights to practice our own freedom of religion. We don't live in a theocracy where some one understanding of religion and faith dictates what the State will and will not do. This religious argument against the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples is simply bogus. And unconstitutional. Religious belief should have no bearing whatsoever on the legal right to marry.

As the push for civil rights began in earnest throughout the South in the 1950s, white Christians—both clergy and laity alike—turned to their faith to mount a defense. These white Christians preached sermons, published pamphlets, and authored articles and books that mined both nature and scripture for supposed evidence of God's support of Jim Crow segregation. Taken together, these sources constitute a theology of segregation that helped shape the Christian imaginations of white southerners and served as the foundation for Christian resistance to racial equality in the middle decades of the 20th century.