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Faith Positions on Marriage Equality
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A growing number of organized religious groups in the United States have issued statements officially welcoming LGBTQ+ people as members and extending marriage rites to them. If you are looking to have a religious wedding ceremony, below are denominations that have embraced marriage for loving same-sex couples.
Key
[CL] - Clergy retain the right to refuse to officiate at any wedding.
[R] - Clergy who refuse to officiate marriages of same-sex couples have to pass on a couple seeking to be married to another church or clergy member to perform the ceremony.
Endorses Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
Unclear Position on Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- American Baptist Church USA
- Assemblies of God
- Bahá'í
- Church of God in Christ
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of the Nazarene
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Islam: Sunni
- Islam: Shi'a
- Jehovah's Witness
- Judaism: Orthodox
- Mennonite Church USA
- National Baptist Convention USA Inc.
- Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Pentecostals
- Presbyterian Church in America
- Roman Catholic Church
- Sikhism
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Southern Baptist Convention
- United Methodist Church
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