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Same-sex marriage is legal, so why have churches been so slow to embrace it?

  • Written by John Mark Capper, Director of Learning and Teaching, University of Divinity
Same-sex marriage is legal, so why have churches been so slow to embrace it?The road to same-sex marriage within churches is likely to be a long one indeed.Shutterstock

Christians were on both sides of the debate leading to last year’s historic shift to marriage equality. To date, no major denomination has publicly shifted to allow same-sex marriage. Why?

Three factors affect whether Christians support or oppose...