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Norway's Lutheran Church embraces same-sex marriage
Reuters ^ | 1/30/17 | Gladys Fouche

Posted on 01/30/2017 5:20:11 PM PST by markomalley

Norway's Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favor of new ceremonial language that will allow its pastors to conduct same-sex marriages, bringing it into line with several other mainstream Protestant denominations abroad.

Last April the annual conference of the Church - to which nearly three quarters of Norwegians said in 2015 they belonged - backed the principle of same-sex marriages, but did not agree on a wording..

Monday's decision involved modifying the marriage text to make it gender-neutral, removing the words "bride" and "groom". The new liturgy will come into effect on Wednesday.

In 2015 the French Protestant Church allowed gay marriage blessings, while the U.S. Presbyterian Church approved a change in the wording of its constitution to include same-sex marriage.

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1 posted on 01/30/2017 5:20:11 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

ELCN???


2 posted on 01/30/2017 5:22:12 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: markomalley

Try as they might, they’ll never change Holy Scripture.


3 posted on 01/30/2017 5:23:15 PM PST by onedoug
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To: markomalley

Sven and Olaf making butt babies. How wonderful (gag).


4 posted on 01/30/2017 5:24:39 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: From The Deer Stand
The state church of Norway is only nominally Lutheran. It is state supported, nobody goes there, and it is Lutheran in name only.
5 posted on 01/30/2017 5:26:56 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: markomalley

God save Luther from the fake Lutherans.


6 posted on 01/30/2017 5:46:50 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: markomalley

Rev_18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.


7 posted on 01/30/2017 5:48:18 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: markomalley

These jackamules are as Lutheran as Pope Frank is Catholic.


8 posted on 01/30/2017 6:01:50 PM PST by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: markomalley

Shame and disgrace and abomination!!!


9 posted on 01/30/2017 6:03:16 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: markomalley

It’s sad that those beautiful stave churches will soon have minarets.


10 posted on 01/30/2017 6:24:18 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~ur/base/*)
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To: All

Babylon rising.


11 posted on 01/30/2017 6:49:55 PM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; And Democrats may change USA completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Vaquero

Poofters


12 posted on 01/30/2017 6:53:28 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: markomalley

Filthy sodomites.


13 posted on 01/30/2017 8:54:00 PM PST by nonsporting
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“several other mainstream Protestant denominations abroad”

What in the world is a “mainstream Protestant denomination abroad?” Would that be the other state-churches in Western Europe?


14 posted on 01/31/2017 12:15:16 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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