Portrait of Same-Gender Marriage: Issues of Church & State

Recorded Live: Sunday, May 9, 2004, 9:30 am PST

G U E S T S :

• Mark Leno
  California State Assemblyman, 13th District



• Rabbi Steven Greenberg
  Senior teaching fellow, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Author, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition

Moderated by : The Very Rev. Alan Jones

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About the Program:

Is the definition of marriage to be determined by politics or religion? Not since Roe vs. Wade has the church and state so crossed paths. California State Assemblyman Mark Leno and Rabbi Steven Greenberg join the Forum to discuss same-gender unions from their political, social, and spiritual perspectives. Perhaps this conversation can model how church and state can work in the same room without rhetoric or divisiveness.

 
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