Posted on 11/15/2022 6:43:11 PM PST by marshmallow
Same-sex couples wanting to get a blessing of their union by a mainline Protestant Church in French-speaking Switzerland will be able to do it in all churches.
The Reformed Church of the Canton Vaud (EERV), whose main city is Lausanne, voted in its synod on 4-5 November that it would join the other cantonal Protestant Churches of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Switzerland (the country’s historic Protestant state church) in offering a neutral "marriage blessing service".
The regional church voted to amend seven articles of its regulations to make sure that from now on all civil marriages would be blessed in its churches, including those formed by homosexuals. One of the arguments to move towards a more liberal theology was to advance in the line of the approval by the Swiss federal parliament of same-sex marriages including adoption of children in September 2021.
The synod discussed a “conscience clause” for ministers who would reject to bless LGBT marriages. In the case of on Church minister refusing to perform the ceremony, another minister would take over.
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The Swiss could have at least maintained neutrality on the issue...
Rapidly descending into hell…
Churches in name only
2042: Switzerland: Dog Weddings Blessed in All French-Speaking Protestant Churches
Now they’ll have gheys up the wazoo.
This could be the abomination of desolation just saying
I think it will be something else but this is just the warm up show.
Parlez vous humma humma?
Calvin is spinning in his grave.
“Calvin is spinning in his grave.”
He is indeed. And lest any of my fellow Catholics ‘tsk, tsk’ over this, don’t. Because this is coming upon us soon. Very soon. And it’s coming from the inside with Bergoglio’s support, and it will take a miracle to stop this runaway train.
first, we were just supposed to “tolerate” the Sodomites, now they’re Running The Table.
lifestyle is an abomination
Sodomy isn’t just a sexual practice prohibited in the Bible. It is a religion.
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