Posted on 08/03/2024 4:40:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So imagine that you're a conservative evangelical Christian or a traditional Catholic, and a nephew invites you to attend his upcoming wedding. And oh, by the way, he will be standing at the altar with another man.
Do you go?
That question presents a huge dilemma for many followers of Jesus Christ, who said that marriage consists solely of one man and one woman, united for life, for the purpose of raising a family while cherishing one another.
Do you, by attending such a ceremony, thereby lend support to a practice that you view as fundamentally un-biblical and therefore sinful? Are you, by not attending, correctly demonstrating what Jesus meant when He said we should "love one another"?
What if you are the only one in your family who objects to such ceremonies? Are you prepared for the harsh criticism that will follow from within and without your family, including accusations that you are being judgmental or hypocritical?
And we haven't even mentioned the fact the issue will likely continue painfully to persist after the ceremony is performed, with or without your presence, when you learn the nephew and his spouse will soon visit your home for an overnight stay.
There were nearly 750,000 same-sex couple households in 2022, according to Statista , with 348,300 of those having been officially married and the remainder simply living together.
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No
Absolutely not.
Source:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/325106/total-number-of-same-sex-househlds-in-the-us/
TOTAL NUMBER OF SAME-SEX HOUSEHOLDS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2022, BY MARITAL STATUS
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:4-6
The harsh criticism is to be expected from the world.
The marriage ceremony includes the attendees. The attendees are both witnesses and members of a community pledging to support the couple. It would be hypocritical to attend when there is no intention to support the marriage.
“ the fact the issue will likely continue painfully to persist after the ceremony is performed, with or without your presence, when you learn the nephew and his spouse will soon visit your home for an overnight stay.”
A man says who stays in his house, he doesn’t “learn” who will be sleeping there.
Christian principles aside, same-sex ceremonies are too weird for my taste. We can call things weird now, or at least that is what Democrats seem to say.
Wow! That is a poorly constructed sentence.
And that would happen over my dead body.
There’s no dilemma here. The answer is NO.
Even worse, there is line about “Thomas Cromwell jesting to the Duke of Ellington about the dangerous presence of spies for the government.” Now wait a minute, I do not remember Duke Ellington in that movie.
what part of “I shall set no evil thing before my eyes” is so difficult to understand? psalm 101:3. homosexuality is an abomination so, like just a little tiny bit of arsenic is STILL poisonous, so is viewing “just a little tiny bit” of a sinful engagement. but you do what you want...you will anyway.
Should Devout Christians Attend Sodomite Weddings?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
REad abiut Sodom and Gomorrah, and how a gang of queers accosted Lots family and two angels who YHWH had sent down to insoect the cities.The gang wanted to sodomize the angels.
The result was the complete destruction of those two cities.YIuo can see the geologic evidence of that destruction even today.
There is your answer.
We have a Sodomite government. We need to clean it up or be destroyed as a nation.Let the sodomites keep to themselves, they do not deserve or even need political power over the majority of the People based upon sexuality.
Our government has become so skewed now that they support the surgical/ biochemical mutilation of mentally ill children , without parental consent.
Think about it.
America is therefore in danger.
The whole problem with the world today is that people don't counsel and condemn the sinner.
It means don't ignore the sin or behavior. Confront it.
That’s up to you, but I wouldn’t.
no
The ceremony has all participants as witnesses and requires everyone to affirm the bond, as such absolutely not.
When you attend and do not protest you are actively supporting the validity of the same sex marriage, this choice is not as hard as many want to make it seem.
Dennis Prager says Yes, out of curtesy to one’s gay friends and loved ones.
We are all called to witness our faith, not the mockery of it.
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