In a landmark decision, the Jeffersonian church, an American Deist Christian sect has voted to allow same sex marriages in their church. Many right-wing fundamentalist sects have condemned the decision. The Jeffersonian church, which rejects the traditional bible in favor of "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" a version of the New testament first created by US president Thomas Jefferson, and which edits out all mentions of the supernatural, has come under fire from the fundamentalist community before, for it's rejection of the resurrection, it's acceptance of the theory of evolution, it's doctrine of "reason over faith" and numerous other ideological differences.
OOC: basically in TTL the Jefferson bible was well known earlier than in OTL, and lead to the creation of a now well established Deist sect in the United States.