Australia gay marriage debate highlights church divisions
from Mailonline:
As Australia prepares for a contentious postal vote on legalising gay marriage, fierce divisions have emerged within the church, with many Christians disregarding traditional religious views as outdated.
Although attitudes to same-sex marriage vary across denominations and congregations — and even between the pulpit and the pews — many Australians view the church as the greatest source of resistance to such unions.
“I think it is really bad news for the church that it is seen as taking this exclusive, judgemental, unloving stance toward a significant part of the Australian community,” Reverend Margaret Mayman, minister of the Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney, told AFP.
“There is obviously a huge gap between the leadership of some denominations and the people in the pews,” she said.
A recent survey commissioned by equality advocates found two thirds of Catholics support gay marriage, as do 59 percent of Anglican, Uniting Church and Church of England followers.
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