{"id":949,"date":"2012-05-18T18:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2012-05-18T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:50:21","slug":"four-reasons-the-christian-and-jewish-faiths-are-set-to-approve-equal-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/05\/four-reasons-the-christian-and-jewish-faiths-are-set-to-approve-equal-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Four reasons the Christian and Jewish faiths are set to approve equal marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month\u2019s highly public split over gay marriage shifted to Australia the spotlight on the issue bitterly dividing Christian and Jewish communities worldwide.<\/p>\n

The greatest revision of belief within the Judaeo-Christian faiths since the Reformation is underway. It is a bruising process with skirmishes erupting regularly around the globe. Conservatives are still winning, but progressives are gaining rapidly.<\/p>\n

Six Roman Catholic bishops in Victoria wroteto their flock in late March urging them to lobby politicians with their views on same-sex marriage. This was in response to proposed legislation in Australia\u2019s federal Parliament to extend marriage to gay couples.<\/p>\n

\u201cA grave mistake will be made if such legislation is enacted,\u201d the bishops warned.<\/p>\n

In response to this 77 other faith leaders produced a contrasting letterurging Christians and Jews to support the marriage reforms.<\/p>\n

Signatories included respected Evangelical elder statesmen, Jewish Rabbis, a Buddhist priest and prominent clergy from the Uniting, Anglican, Apostolic Johannite, Quaker, Metropolitan and other churches across Australia.<\/p>\n

These letters are significant both for Australian politics and the future of the religious bodies.\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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