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...Kurtz, who leads the U.S. church's efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage, was encouraged by the recent referendum in Maine. He told TIME over the the weekend, "In Maine, when people were asked to - and I would call it not so much a vote against human rights, but a vote in defense of a definition of marriage that we see as essential to our culture and our nature - they responded favorably." (Read about the aftermath of the gay-marriage referendum in Maine...
Kurtz reiterated his church stands opposing the discrimination against and ill-treatment of homosexuals. "The church truly desires to be a defender of human rights," says the Archbishop. He also admits that many Americans do not share Catholic teachings about marriage. Nevertheless, he says the church believes that the "defense of truth," as God, nature and human history have revealed it, cannot be separated from the pursuit of justice. You can't have justice, he argues, if the truth of marriage between one man and one woman as a cornerstone of human society is denied. (See a pictorial history...
Traditionally, Evangelical Christians have differed in their interpretation of the Creation Psalm, believing that instead of mandating human stewardship for the environment, Genesis grants human beings ‘dominion’ over...
...There’s a long-standing belief that human beings are meant to do whatever they want more or less [with the environment],” Page said. “But in the last fifteen years, there’s been a real change, and Christians have begun to see climate change as a moral issue...
...were to decide in the present generation that it was fine for us to take advantage of all of the work and sacrifices [done] by previous generations...that would be the single most immoral act of any generation of human beings to act on this planet,” Gore said. “But that is the decision that we face...