Cultural definition of marriage still evolving five years after Obergefell ruling
Almost five years to the day after the June 26, 2015, Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, the city council in midsize Somerville, Mass., passed a domestic partnership ordinance extending certain benefits to polyamorous relationships. City councilmembers described the ordinance as the first in the nation to recognize polyamory, incidentally in the same state that in 2004 was the first in the nation to allow gay marriage.
Everything is in place for the cultural definition of marriage to continue evolving to suit society's personal desires and whims, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and theologian R. Albert Mohler told Baptist Press.
"I see Obergefell as more of a symptom than a cause of much of the cultural change happening in the world today," said Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. "The forces of cultural change as related to marriage and sexuality...
