This 2014 CCAR responsum concludes that "same-sex marriages therefore meet the long-standing Reform definition of kiddushin as a mutual and egalitarian marital covenant between two Jews," identifying three commitments a same-sex couple can fulfill on the same terms as an opposite-sex couple: establishing a Jewish home, mutual support, and raising children as Jews where applicable. It reviews the CCAR's own history from a divided 1996 responsum, whose majority held "only heterosexual relationships qualify as kiddushin," through the 2000 resolution affirming rabbinic officiation, to this 2014 conclusion resting on the Reform movement's own egalitarian interpretation of marriage developed since 1869.
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PublisherCentral Conference of American Rabbis
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://www.ccarnet.org/ccar-responsa/same-sex-marriage-kiddushin/
Source TypeOfficial doctrinal statement
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Reliability Tier1
The Reform movement's own rabbinical body's own responsum, published on its own site. NotesCited for Reform Judaism's detailed position on sexuality, giving the fuller 2014 development beyond the 2000 resolution.
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Custodian BodyCentral Conference of American Rabbis
Custodian BasisThe Reform movement's own rabbinical body's own responsum, published on its own site.
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