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“We are unable to offer a path to separation from the United Methodist Church for local churches,” the office of United Methodist bishop Rev. David Graves, the newly appointed bishop for the ...
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Tennessee House Bill 878 is a proposed state law in the U.S. state of Tennessee, granting an individual the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage if the individual has a religious or conscience-based objection to that partnership. [1] The law was passed in 2024 and signed into law by Governor Bill Lee. [2]
On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
In 1996, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted a statute banning same-sex marriages. [4] This ban was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2015. On May 6, 2004, the House of Representatives approved Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, by a vote of 85–5.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a new law that will allow public officials in the state to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so goes against their beliefs.
The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
Rev. Scott Sauls, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church, has been on a disciplinary hiatus for six months. The Nashville megachurch is expected to take up Sauls' resignation Nov. 12.