The United States is home to about 7 percent of all Catholics in the world. As of 2010, an estimated 23 percent of U.S. adults and 24 percent of the total U.S. population are Catholic. The U.S. Catholic population has lost more members than it has gained from denominational switching.
Definition of civil union. : the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples.
The recently enacted and soon-to-be effective Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act (the act or the Civil Union Act) is a relatively short, relatively simple, and exceptionally comprehensive piece of legislation that creates a status analogous and equal to marriage under Illinois law - without regard to gender - conferring ...