scholarly journals Unmarried cohabitation and its fertility in Ireland: Towards post-Catholic family dynamics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Benoît Laplante ◽  
Teresa Castro-Martín ◽  
Clara Cortina ◽  
Ana Fostik
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Late Development ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Unmarried Cohabitation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Family Behaviour

Ireland was known for being conservative in family matters. The 2015 referendum that allowed same-sex marriage and the 2018 one that allowed abortion showed this is no longer true. This article aims at better understanding recent family change in Ireland by looking at changes in values on topics related with family behaviour and change in behaviour related with family formation–the rise of unmarried cohabitation, and childbearing within unmarried cohabitation–with a focus on the Catholic dogma and its role in the Irish society. We use data from the 2008 European Value Survey and from the five censuses conducted between 1991 and 2011. We find that the young have been moving away from the teachings of the Church on unmarried cohabitation, but that a few years before the 2018 referendum, they were still close to it on abortion. There is no clear negative relationship between cohabitation or fertility within cohabitation and education, but the use of cohabitation seems to vary according to education. The most enduring legacy of the Church doctrine seems to be the late development of family policies that make motherhood hard to reconcile with work and might explain why cohabiting women have few children.

A Catholic Inclusive Approach to Homosexuality in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-408
Author(s):  
Daniel Ude Asue
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This essay discusses Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill in Nigeria, with a focus on the contribution of the Nigerian Catholic Church to the law. Though the Catholic Church in Nigeria did not actively contribute towards the public debates about homosexuality that resulted into the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill it nevertheless welcomed the bill. However, the official teachings of the Catholic Church and elucidations from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria could potentially contribute to creating an inclusive society. In what way can we potentially utilize the principles of Catholic Social Teaching to make room for an inclusion of homosexual persons in the life of the church and in society?

‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organic Community ◽  
German Sociologist ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the implications for Irish Catholicism that the ‘Yes’ vote in the May 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage may have for the social and cultural position of the Catholic church in contemporary Ireland and in the future. His analysis channels the thinking of Ferdinand Tönnies, an early German sociologist and a contemporary of Durkheim and Weber, who used the German words ‘Gemeinschaft’ and ‘Gesellschaft’ to distinguish between two fundamentally different structural paradigms for social relations. O’Brien sees marriage as a core ideological signifier of ideological hegemony, and using the fantasy fiction of Terry Pratchett’s satire on religion entitled Small Gods as a lens, he looks at the referendum as a significant turning point in the definition of marriage, and by extension, in the transformation Irish society from the organic community of the Gemeinschaft, to the more postmodern and pluralist notion of the Gesellschaft.

Why They Did Not Identify as Gay or Bisexual

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Tony Silva
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Legal Equality

The men interviewed identified as straight largely because of their embeddedness in straight culture and desire to remain a part of a socially dominant group. Most felt that gay men were too feminine, urban, or incompatible with conventional marriage or family formation. Nonetheless, a majority supported equal legal rights, including same-sex marriage. Yet many also expressed various types and degrees of homophobia, some subtle and some more obvious. In this sense the men interviewed were like the majority of straight people, who support many forms of legal equality but not always informal rights. The men interviewed identified as straight not only because of homophobia, any more than most straight men identify as straight only because of homophobia. Homophobia was only one of many reasons for their straight identification. Relatedly, most of the men interviewed knew that bisexuality was a possible identity but did not adopt that identity for themselves in large part for three reasons. First, they considered it incompatible with having a woman partner. Second, they had no interest in romantically partnering with a man. And third, they thought identifying as bisexual would threaten their other relationships.

Liberal and Secular or Protestant and Orange?

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-193
Author(s):  
Thomas Hennessey ◽  
Máire Braniff ◽  
James W. McAuley ◽  
Jonathan Tonge ◽  
Sophie A. Whiting
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
Orange Order ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the importance of the Protestant Faith and Church and of the Orange Order to UUP members. Whilst overwhelmingly Protestant, the UUP has always rejected the overtly fundamentalist, Free Presbyterian brand with which the DUP was associated for many years. The chapter analyses whether the Church of Ireland or Presbyterian Church provide most UUP members. The chapter then discusses the religiously conservative attitudes of members, assessing the extent of support for, or opposition to, the legalization of same-sex marriage and abortion, currently still prohibited (other than in exceptional cases for abortion) in Northern Ireland. The extent to which members offer support for ‘mixed’ (Protestant–Catholic) marriages and for unfettered marching rights for the Orange Order, will also be examined. Are older members, politically socialized in an era of fraternal Orange–UUP relations, still more sympathetic to the Orange Order? The survey data allow direct comparisons with the DUP.

scholarly journals The Church of England and Same-Sex Marriage: Beyond a Rights-Based Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Institutional Response ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Church ◽  
Apparent Conflict ◽  
Do So

Some scholars, faced with the apparent conflict between the Church of England's teaching on marriage and the idea of equal marriage embraced by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, have focused on the implications of that Act for the constitutional relationship between Church, State and nation. More frequently, noting the position of the Church of England under that Act, academics have critiqued the legislation as an exercise in balancing competing human rights. This article by contrast, leaving behind a tendency to treat religion as a monolithic ‘other’, and leaving behind the neat binaries of rights-based analyses, interrogates the internal agonies of the Church of England as it has striven to negotiate an institutional response to the secular legalisation of same-sex marriage. It explores the struggles of the Church to do so in a manner which holds in balance a wide array of doctrinal positions and the demands of mission, pastoral care and the continued apostolic identity of the Church of England.

Die Ehe als Institution – für Hetero- und Homosexuelle Überlegungen zur Diskussion über die EKD-Orientierungshilfe

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Isolde Karle
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Divorce Rates ◽  
The Church ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract The guidelines on family life published by the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) has triggered an intensive debate, especially regarding the understanding of marriage. The author demonstrates that the objections against same-sex marriage are not substantial. Instead the church should rather have an interest in opening up marriage because it highly values the concept of lasting love. On the other hand, the author points to the fact that, despite high divorce rates, the integrative force of marriage as an institution should not be underestimated. She discusses from a sociological, juridical and theological perspective how marriage provides stability, relief, confirmation, and strength. The essay concludes with a plea for marriage - of hetero- and homosexuals alike.

scholarly journals Same-Sex Marriage and the Catholic Church in Europe. Any Chance for Understanding?

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kużelewska ◽  
Marta Michalczuk-Wlizło
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The World ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Abstract There is room for everyone in the Catholic Church, but there is no consent for same-sex marriage in that Church as marriage only between a baptized man and a woman is a sacrament. Same-sex marriage is inconsistent with the Holy Scripture where marriage is based on God’s natural law. This official Scripture’s interpretation results in lack of possibility to reconciliate the official teaching of the Church with the recognition of same-sex marriage. The world is moving forward and so are the opinions of Christians and their growing support for same-sex marriage. Such marriage is recognized in thirty states worldwide, including states with dominant Catholic religion. Regardless the official teaching, the Catholic Church’s position is not uniform. The paper discusses the official interpretation of the Scripture concerning homosexuals, analyses the position of the Catholic Church toward same-sex marriage and indicates differences in Christians’ attitudes with respect to same-sex couples in Western and Eastern Europe.

Worship and Liturgy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hill QC
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Church Policy ◽  
The Church

This chapter focuses on worship and liturgy in the Church of England. It first considers the form of liturgy used by the Church of England before discussing the performance of regular services in the Church. It then examines Church practice with regard to baptism, confirmation, confession, and holy communion including reservation of the sacrament. It also explains the Church policy with respect to holy matrimony, with particular emphasis on marriage by banns and by licence, superintendent registrar's certificates as a means of authorising a wedding, solemnisation of marriage, marriages in chapels, further marriage of divorced persons, and same-sex marriage. The chapter concludes by analysing how the Church conducts burials and funerals and looking at other church services such as daily offices, visitation of the sick, and exorcism.

Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Philip Morris
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Review Group ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

In his April Presidential Address the Archbishop focused on two issues: the Report of the Review Group chaired by Lord Harries and same-sex marriage. His concern with the Review is that ‘it is possible to get so bogged down or hung up on some of the details of the Provincial Review that there is a danger in dismissing all of it because one disagrees with some of the points it makes’. He regretted that churches with ordained clergy ‘have been tempted to assume that all ministry is vested in an omnicompetent professional minister’ and reminded his listeners that the basic sacrament of the Church was not ordination but baptism. His concern with the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was that clergy who would not conduct same-sex marriages needed protection, yet the Church itself needed to be allowed to conduct such marriages if it decided to do so in future. He felt that the Church ‘needed to have a discussion as to whether we want to continue having this special status in law as far as marriage is concerned’.

The Culture of Obedience and the Politics of Stealth: Mormon Mobilization Against ERA and Same-Sex Marriage

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ellen Gordon ◽  
William L. Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Communications Networks ◽  
Spontaneous Action ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Church

AbstractPolitical mobilization by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was more widespread and important than most studies of the episode have acknowledged. Several decades later, the Church is again organized and active in opposing legal recognition of same-sex marriage. In this article, we explore why and how the Latter-Day Saints mobilized on these two issues. We argue that their mobilization can be understood through classic social movement theory, even though the Church is not an economic-based interest group. Furthermore, the Mormons' approach in fighting the ERA — drawing on centralized authority, tapping into established volunteer and communications networks, effectively channeling money and personnel to where they are most needed, and engaging in stealth politics (obscuring the centralized nature of apparently spontaneous action) — is echoed in the fight against same-sex marriage, even though the times and technology have somewhat changed the mobilization dynamic.

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