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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ELCN???
Try as they might, they’ll never change Holy Scripture.
Sven and Olaf making butt babies. How wonderful (gag).
God save Luther from the fake Lutherans.
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.
These jackamules are as Lutheran as Pope Frank is Catholic.
Shame and disgrace and abomination!!!
It’s sad that those beautiful stave churches will soon have minarets.
Babylon rising.
Poofters
Filthy sodomites.
“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?
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