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In January 2015, Pastor Neil Patrick Carrick of Detroit brought a case, Carrick v. Snyder, against Michigan, arguing that the state's ban of same-sex marriage and polygamy violated the Free Exercise and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. [26] [27] The case was dismissed for lack of standing in February 2016. [28]
Decision 1032 created vigorous debate on the level of autonomy individual pastors and congregations have in interpreting and applying Church doctrine. On May 1, 2024 the UMC allowed same-sex weddings and struck down the 40-year ban on gay clergy. [110]
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places [35] and as a Michigan Historic Site [31] Cathedral of St. Anthony 1901 5247 Sheridan St, Detroit Romanesque Revival Donaldson and Meier Listed as a Michigan Historic Site. [31] [184] Now part of the Ecumenical Catholic Church of Christ [185] St. Benedict Church 1915 16299 John R St., Highland Park
A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community, the result of weeks of controversy following his publicly expressed regret that a gay author had read a ...
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May 23—HARLINGEN — A pastors' group is standing behind a new state law and is requesting Rio Grande Valley school boards remove a list of books they describe as containing graphic sexuality ...
The actual divorce rate is probably somewhat higher due to civil divorces obtained without an accompanying ecclesiastical divorce. [35] Divorced individuals are usually allowed to remarry though there is usually imposed on them a penance by their bishop and the services for the second marriage, in this case, are more penitential than joyful.
The EPC began as a result of prayer meetings in 1980 and 1981 by pastors and elders increasingly alienated by liberalism in the "northern" branch of Presbyterianism (the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church (USA)). Two cases served as important catalysts in their separation: the Kenyon Case of 1975 ...