Posted on 03/25/2014 6:00:34 AM PDT by C19fan
A prolific thief broke into the vestry of a North London church; grabbed the weekly collection, an iPhone and some silver, and began his getaway. He pushed past a female curate and raced towards the exit, but Father Andrew Cain got to the doorway first. Tall and broad-chested, he bellowed: “Get on your knees!”
The ecclesiastical citizen’s arrest was widely celebrated in Britain at the time. Two years later, Cain is about to make headlines again, but this time his career is hanging in the balance. Defying the church’s orders, he will become the first Church of England clergyman to enter into a same-sex marriage.
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It writes itself.
First this is not about getting married. This man had already spit in God’s face as did the Church by being a non repentant homosexual. That is the sin here. Getting married is just icing on the cake..
God can and will forgive anyone their sin. Murderers thieves, adulterer’s, perverts etc. Nowhere in his Word does He say He will accept it.
He should have been excommunicated already. They better do it quickly or the church will be complicit.
It isn’t “marriage.”
Marriage means Holy Matrimony.
Two men or two women cannot complete a holy matrimony.
You can call it something else, and lots of people do, but it isn’t a marriage.
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