gay marriage

Pakistani clerics declare transgender marriages legal in Islam

Fifty top Pakistani clerics have issued a religious decree declaring that transgender people have full marriage, inheritance and funeral rights under Islamic law. The fatwa stated that a female-born transgender person having “visible signs of being a male” may marry a woman or a male-born transgender with “visible signs of…

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NYTimes Op-Ed: A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage

Here’s a timely and compelling piece on gay marriage – partly touching on how religious organizations will be affected: “The First Amendment may make it unlikely that a church, say, would ever be coerced by law into performing same-sex wedding rites in its sanctuary. But religious organizations are also involved…

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