Aren’t people glad if you’re church isn’t a government-run church like in Denmark? Kind of sad, but it goes to show how wise the Constitution was in having the 1st Amendment. Gives me shivers to all those nations that have a state-run church like Finland and others.
Come on. Is it not time for a world war? Come Lord Jesus!
I don’t think it will happen in the Catholic Church, but I’m not familiar with Denmark at all.
Go kiss your queen’s ass now, subjects.
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I assume the former, because then there would be a larger issue.
Of course the fair-minded Danes must have also made it mandatory for mosques to permit gay weddings to be held on their premises, right?
I hope they all decide to get married in the local Mosque....
Marcellus said it best (with help from Shakespeare):
“Something’s rotten in the State of Denmark.”
The First Amendment won’t trump the Fourteenth Amendment (as it is now interpreted) when it comes down to crunch time. We don’t have an established church, but we have a situation where the the First Amendment is being contracted as the Fourteenth Amendment is being expanded. The churches will not be immune.
Is this literally any church including the Catholic Church, Mosques or Orthodox synagogues or the state supported Church of Denmark? I remember other state sponsored churches in Scandinavia being required to perform gay marriages too.
Another good reason for separation between Church and State.
It will be interesting to see how the bishops handle this. Pray for them.
Only a third of the priests plan to refuse?
The Church in Denmark is in worse shape than I thought.
If such an edict is handed down to Christian churches here in the U.S., that’ll draw some major pushback.
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Of all the religions in Denmark, the most prominent is Christianity in the form of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark, the state religion. However, pockets of virtually all faiths can be found among the population.
Thank you, defrocked Father Martin Luther, another consequence of your protesting "Lutheranism."
Luther’s fault.
A state-run church isn’t a church. Having to pay a tax to the church makes it another coercive arm of the government.
Because we have allowed government to define “marriage” for its own purposes (such as taxation and regulation of estates), we have allowed government to define marriage as a social institution. That was fine as long as people in control of government were generally supportive of God’s original definition of marriage. However we have entered a time when a growing number of people in control of government are willing to redefine marriage for their own purposes, which in part is contrary to God’s definition.
Marriage is now far more a matter of politics and ideology than of private religious beliefs.
Therefore, for the sake of marriage as God defines it, it is time to remove from government the power to define who is married and who is not. Then gays could form whatever relationships they please but they could not force those who disagree to be enablers for those relationships. And we would not have schools that must teach that homosexual “marriages” are just as legitimate as heterosexual ones. Nor would we have owners of wedding photography services being threatened with arrest and being convicted of a crime for merely declining to artfully photograph a “marriage” they find morally repugnant.