On August 4, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that California's Proposition 8, a ballot measure passed by voters defining marriage as between one man and one woman, violates the right to equal protection, deeming the 2008 law unconstitutional. Adventists of all persuasions responded to the court's ruling. A sampling of responses is provided below.

Michael D. Peabody - Los Angeles Attorney, Editor of ReligiousLiberty.TV

This is an analysis of the courtroom proceedings in Perry v. Schwarzenegger and the August 4, 2010 decision by Judge Vaughn Walker upholding the right of same-sex couples to marry and not an analysis of the moral reasoning behind either position.

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Soulforce, which engages in relentless nonviolent resistance against political and religious oppression of LGBTQ people, will be visiting Oakwood University on Monday, March 15, and Union College on Thursday, April 21.

UPDATE: See church statement in response.

The Ugandan government is considering a bill which states that a person who "commits the offence of homosexuality. . .shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for life."

During the recent Andrews University Marriage, Homosexuality and the Church Conference, Dwight K. Nelson, senior pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church in Berrien Springs, preached a sermon with the punchy title, "Sex in the Sanctuary: What's so Gay About That?"

The Andrews University Conference on Marriage, Homosexuality and the Church was a significant event in the unfolding story of Seventh-day Adventists' understandings of and positions on homosexuality.

Friday morning at the Andrews University Marriage, Homosexuality and the Church Conference brought the first (and last) semblance of real dialog on the topic of homosexuality and marriage.

In unscripted comments Friday, Roy Gane, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Languages at Andrews University, explained to some one hundred fifty attendees at the conference on Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Church why he and Nicholas Miller created the conference.

Throughout the Andrews University Conference on Marriage and Homosexuality, open Q&A sessions have allowed attendees to put their questions to distinguished panels of scholars, pastors, and lay persons alike.

As is always the case, some questions receive more substantive responses than do others. At times, panelists all but ignored important questions from the floor.

Here are three good questions that received poor responses--questions that would be worth considering in greater depth than that afforded to them during the conference.

It's day two of the Marriage, Homosexuality and the Church Conference being held at Andrews University.

You can follow along on the topics being discussed on the floor in front of about two hundred attendees by checking out Spectrum's tweets here.

Full reports with photos coming soon, recapping the main points of the conference.

In the mean time, here are some updates from Twitter: