Swedish PM tells priests to carry out same-sex marriages ‘or do something else’

RT ^ | 6-24-2017 | Staff

[brucedickinson]

“We Social Democrats are working to ensure all priests will consecrate everyone, including same-sex couples,” Lofven told Kyrkans Tidning magazine.

“I see parallels to the midwife who refuses to perform abortions. If you work as a midwife you must be able to perform abortions, otherwise you have to do something else… It is the same for priests,” he said.

[brucedickinson]

“We Social Democrats are working to ensure all priests will consecrate everyone, including same-sex couples,” Lofven told Kyrkans Tidning magazine.

“I see parallels to the midwife who refuses to perform abortions. If you work as a midwife you must be able to perform abortions, otherwise you have to do something else… It is the same for priests,” he said.

Funny, they only push this crap in (former) White nations-- trannies and abortions. In China, the guys who try to pull this crap would end up with their corneas on Ebay

[Unam Sanctam]

I thought the Church of Sweden was disestablished a few years back? How can the gov’t tell it what to do?

[allendale]

The Left destroys all it touches.

[ScaniaBoy]

You are quite right, and you obviously know more about the Swedish society than our PM does. On the other hand few people are less informed than he is....

[moovova]

I’m sure the same Swedish PM told God to accept same-sex marriage...or do something else.

[I want the USA back]

There is an established church in Sweden. It bows down and does what the government tells it to do.
Prediction: in less than 4.4 years the church of Sweden will be disestablished, and it will be the grand imam of Sweden who rules the country.

[mewzilla]

The Islamists are gonna love this...

[Jane Long]

See posts 2 and 4.

Has it been disestablished?

This PM is evil to the core.....even his ‘analogy’ is evil.

[BenLurkin]

Okay..."something else" it is...

[Redmen4ever]

There was a time Christians thought the forcing prohibition onto the country would be great. Now Christian are under threat of the secularists forcing their moral relativism onto them. Entire churches have already been seduced into moral relativism. Yet Jesus was clear on this from day 1. My kingdom is not of this world.

[ZULU]

Looks like one of them.

[Redwood71]

Religion is always a complicated matter in Sweden.The Church of Sweden has been separated from the state since 2000, which means that Sweden no longer has an official state church. While most countries in the world have no official religion, Sweden is in fact the only Nordic country without a state church, as Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland have all retained theirs. And Sweden also has a very large population of aetheists.

Christianity and the church may have maintained ritual and cultural importance in Sweden, but this has not prevented the country from becoming one of the world’s most liberal societies. In some areas where religious and social conservatism often prevail, such as the right to abortion, no serious debate exists in Sweden. Living together and having children without being married is also socially acceptable with recent statistics suggesting that more than 40 per cent of first-time parents in Sweden have children before getting married.

The Church of Sweden has often accompanied liberal social change rather than obstructing it. For example, in 2009 the church decided to begin performing same-sex marriage ceremonies as Sweden legalised same-sex marriage in the same year. At the end of 2014, 5,356 women and 4,212 men had married a person of the same sex.

Traditional yet new-thinking, secular yet religious, tolerant yet challenging – it all holds true for Sweden. But the state stepping in after they decided to separate totally from a state church after 10 years, and now 17, makes it very difficult to understand their position except through the change.

rwood

[LydiaLong]

I am on record here for saying that some day American priests will be forced to perform gay marriages. I still hold to that.

[yldstrk]

Maybe that’s a good enough reason to do it

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, the sex/gender decontructionists are trying to pull this crap everywhere. On all the inhabited continents. Often not through National Churches, but through Major Power bullies (e.g. the Obama-era U.S. State Department) and international agencies.

Some attempts more successful than others.

[okie 54]

If you like your fags you can keep your fags

[WMarshal]

The Social Democrat Party of Sweden is filled with demonic, low-life scum. It may be the most evil group on the face of the earth.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Prohibition was a mistake because there is nothing intrinsically morally wrong with drinking an ancoholic beverage.

[Don Corleone]

The Left destroys all it touches.

The object of power is more power!!!

[monkeywrench]

No force. It is a choice they’ll have to make. Obey God or man.