Then they are done as effective witnesses for Christ. They have become apostate.
Coming soon to a Catholic Parish near you (unfortunately).
It is a Hobson’s Choice situation, where there is no fully good choice.
I thought they already did this.
Allow? I’m surprised it isn’t required.
Gays should be encouraged to join and leave the rest alone.
In a few years they’ll be worshiping a phallic symbol, the last of the true believers in God will find new homes in other churches.
This is indicative of the “Christian” world, and the world’s perception of Christianity. Satan was unable to destroy Christianity, so he did the next best thing. He flooded the world with counterfeits.
I grew up Episcopalian but I haven’t been inside the Church in almost 30 years and now never. That last Presiding Bishop, the woman, did it for me. She was so Left it was revolting.
In my opinion the church’s embracing the Gay Marriage stand are certainly going to lose a number of members that do not believe in that and vehemently oppose it. That goes for all church’s that do this.
By the way the main reason that many churches will allow Gay Marriage will be to keep their Tax Exempt Status.
They are a synagogue of Satan. They are celebrating and promoting homosexual sex over the will of God.
Duh. Who didn’t see this coming?
Bishops’ Statement on Supreme Court Ruling
“From the Beginning”: God’s Design for Marriage
The Archbishop and Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America have received the recent ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States of America and are deeply grieved by the stark departure from God’s revealed order. We are concerned for the inevitable results from this action to change the legal understanding of marriage and family life.
While this decision grieves us, God’s truth and the goodness of the order established in creation have not been changed. The kingdom of God cannot be shaken. We pray with confidence that God will reveal his glory, love, goodness, and hope to the world through his Church as we seek to follow him in faith and obedience.
Jesus Christ teaches that God is the author of marriage from the beginning of time (Matthew 19:4-6). God’s design for marriage has always involved a man and a woman: “a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). These truths have ordered civilization for thousands of years. Where God’s designs are followed in any society, including his designs for marriage and families, the result is the greatest possible blessing and abundance of life.
The Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is often summarized as, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Because of his love, we love and care for all those who experience same-sex attraction. The Anglican Church in North America continues to welcome everyone to experience the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
Marriage is established by God for the procreation and raising of children and for the good of society. For this reason, governments have an interest in marriage and have delegated authority from God to protect and regulate it. But no court, no legislature and no local magistrate has the authority to redefine marriage and to impose this definition on their citizens.
The United States of America, so its founders believed and taught, is a nation under God whose citizens’ fundamental rights are derived from the Creator. There is no right to a relationship which is contrary to the Creator’s express design. . .
Gay is so yesterday, transgender is the new gay.
So why be a Church at all? You serve no purpose anymore for Jesus Christ
Reject and deny the term. It's a "bitch-hitch".
Episcopalians...churches
That filth isn't a church.
At first read I saw ...
... for same-sex couples, SODOMIZING the church’s embrace of gay rights ...
Good. now the gays don’t have to bother the Baptists and Catholics.
As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!”
The story makes it sound like it’s the entire Episcopalian Church. False. It famously split several years ago; the apostates are the smaller slice with the gay bishop (now divorced from his boyfriend). They’ve been doing gay marriages in church for a few years. The Biblicals are thriving.
It’s Yahoo news. Leaving out inconvenient facts is what they do.
All. The. Time.
Wow. I was SURE the Episcopalians would hold the line!
No offense to the faithful truly, but the sect was founded by a king... the needs of the State have priority over the word of God.