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The Nurturing Community: Marriage

2016 Book of Discipline, Social Principles ¶161.C


C) Marriage

We affirm the sanctity of the marriage covenant that is expressed in love, mutual support, personal commitment, and shared fidelity between a man and a woman. We believe that God’s blessing rests upon such marriage, whether or not there are children of the union. We reject social norms that assume different standards for women than for men in marriage. We support laws in civil society that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.[2]

[2] See Judicial Council Decision 694.

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