Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
“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 ...
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]
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.
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.
The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) similarly condemns homosexuality. [125] These churches therefore oppose same-sex unions, gay pastors, and would tend to forbid congregants who persist in homosexual practices. Politically, they are likely to support politicians with the same viewpoints.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Alimony pendente lite was given until the divorce decree, based on the husband's duty to support the wife during a marriage that still continued. Post-divorce or permanent alimony was also based on the notion that the marriage continued, as ecclesiastical courts could only award a divorce a mensa et thoro, similar to a legal separation today ...
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.