Posted on 08/12/2016 10:01:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A gay couple will make history as they become the first homosexual couple to be “married” in a Protestant church in Berlin on Friday, reports the Berliner Zeitung.
Having been together for fourteen years, civil partners Sven Kretschmer and Tim Kretschmer-Schmidt are finally going to get “married”, at least in the eyes of the Protestant church. […]
In 2002, the Protestant church made it possible for gay couples to receive a blessing. However, the “classical” church marriage service remained a privilege reserved for heterosexual couples only.
Recently though, the Synods in the Rhineland, Hesse-Nassau, and Baden pioneered further change when they all agreed to give same-sex civil partners exactly the same ceremony as heterosexual married couples. Following in their footsteps, the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian-Upper-Lusatia (EKBO) voted 91 to 10 to grant gay couples equality with heterosexual couples in April this year. …
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Abomination
Calling two male human beings a viable married couple is like calling two male electric plugs a functioning alternating current circuit:
The former cannot produce progeny, and the latter cannot produce electricity.
~... the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian-Upper-Lusatia (EKBO) voted 91 to 10 to grant gay couples equality with heterosexual couples ~
The vote was 91 in favor; 10 opposed? If true, that is NO LONGER a valid church, and definitely NOT a Christian denomination. Disgraceful...
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