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Same-sex marriage in Judaism has been a subject of debate within Jewish denominations. The traditional view among Jews is to regard same-sex relationships as categorically forbidden by the Torah. This remains the current view of Orthodox Judaism, but not of Reconstructionist Judaism, Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism, which started changing its position to same-sex unions in 2006.
Orthodox Judaism maintains the traditional Jewish bans on both sexual acts and marriage amongst members of the same sex.[1] The Orthodox Union in the United States supported a federal Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.[2] In Australia, the Organisation of Rabbis Australasia (ORA) have made submissions and written public letters against legalising same-sex marriage.
The Union for Reform Judaism (formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations) supports the inclusion of same-sex unions within the definition of marriage.[3]
The American branch of [6]
The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation leaves the choice of whether or not to perform same-sex marriages to individual rabbis.[7]
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