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On the other hand, U. It reads:. Italy is the largest Western European country where same-sex marriage is not legal; its parliament, however, approved civil unions for same-sex couples in The research shows that the shift toward more liberal attitudes on a number of social values and issues has occurred across the age spectrum, not just among young people, and that when Americans are asked about moral values they are thinking of things other than just the norms surrounding sexual behavior and reproduction issues. State courts built on that sentence to strike down local gay-marriage bans, one after another. People around the world face violence and inequality—and sometimes torture, even execution—because of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Same-sex couples are incapable of procreating.

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was not originally thought to have anything to do with sexuality at all, even if there is a sexual component to the passage we just read. The problem with both of these things is that they would blur the lines between practices that are specifically Israelite and those that are foreign. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Okay, but the penalty is death — certainly, that indicates that the behavior in question is particularly bad, and that we should still regard it as sinful.