Posted on 10/18/2011 11:38:34 AM PDT by Cronos
Would you attend a same-sex wedding ceremony? That question was posed recently to Houston pastor Joel Osteen, and Osteen said that he would attend, if the wedding involved friends. This came just after Osteen indicated that he could not perform a same-sex marriage ceremony, since he believes that homosexuality is a sin.
I recently wrote about this exchange, suggesting that Osteen’s position is morally and theologically incoherent. As I said:
This is beyond mere incoherence. It is moral and theological nonsense. More than that, it is a massive statement of ministerial malpractice. . . . You cannot celebrate what you say you know to be sin. You cannot honestly say that same-sex marriage defies the law of God, and then join in the celebration of that ceremony.
In recent days, Uri Scaramanga of “Out of Ur” and Leadership magazine posed the question to readers, using my comments as a point of reference. The question: “Is Al Mohler right? Is attending a same-sex marriage ceremony the same as performing one? Is it ministerial malpractice? What would you do?”
The responses to that question are revealing. I did not, however, argue that attending a same-sex marriage ceremony is the same as performing one, I did say - and I repeat - that it is incoherent and inconsistent to refuse to perform a same-sex marriage ceremony, and then to attend one.
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I know I don’t even have to ask........but I love your answers!
” Your church may call this an abomination, I can’t call it that.”
There are wierdos that marry serial killers, too, but that doesn’t make them or the act right.
So, how are you even letting them know that you disagree with homosexuality if you celebrate it with them? ??????
Osteen is an entertainer; there is no substance to him. He doesn’t want to offend anyone, so there is no real belief structure.
Any Christian, Jewish, or Muslim group that treats homosexuality as anything other than an abomination is not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. The liberals that claim to belong to any of these faiths have absolutely no basis to support their positions.
Yes, I would attend. I’ve never placed politics in front of friends and family and I doubt I ever will.
This is not about politics, it is about good and evil, right and wrong.
My Father was the son of a Baptist minister and was brought up thinking the Catholic Church was guilty of all kinds of sins. When his daughter married a Catholic boy, daddy would not go to the weddding. Mother and the rest of us did go.
My Mother had and extraordinary love for her children even by Mother standards. I got to thinking about it and even with Mother’s love I know she would not have attended a marriage between one of her Sons and another man. I can recall her reading her Bible by the window every evening.
Fortunately she never had to make such a choice as her Sons loved girls and her Daughters loved men.
Interestingly my Father finally got over his Catholic Son-in-Law and thought the world of him before he died.
Just curious: did you experience any negative repercussions at work for not attending?
Grow up, if you can.
That depends. Will they have a Cash Bar or not.
So you would go celebrate two sodomites “wedding” and I have a filthy mind?
Give us a break!!!!
However, as I said at the start, that is your opinion or choice to attend it and you have the freedom and free will to do so and I respect that.
he is right — we as a society have slowly accepted the homosexual lifestyle as “normal”, hence this question will arise.
Good for you. I agree with what you did and I would do the same.
NO!
Yeah...and i can’t understand why other people don’t see it....but used car salesmen still sell cars i guess.
I agree.
Same goes for divorce/remarriage and other relationships that I consider gravely disordered for one reason or another.
If asked for my approval I will honestly decline it.
This probably goes without saying but I'm not invited to many weddings these days.
Why the confusion, the question marks?
I thought my question to your statement was very plain. I’ll try again.
Homosexuality, which is a behavior, is wrong. Same sex ‘marriage’ seeks to normalize and or celebrate a wrong.
But you seem to be saying that IF that celebration of wrongness is within your own family, then, well, let’s go ahead and get with the program and celebrate it.
Not at all. Quite the contrary, many folks applauded me for not going. I really didn't know the woman, and she was sorta blanket-inviting everyone in the office. Many people went, but given that I was a newer face, they never missed me.
You seem to be mistaken.
I didn’t say anything was right or wrong, just that if they were family or friends, and I was invited, I would go.
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