Posted on 06/10/2014 6:12:58 AM PDT by marshmallow
Homosexual couples in Denmark have won the right to get married in any church they choose, even though nearly one third of the country's priests have said they will refuse to carry out the ceremonies.
The country's parliament voted through the new law on same-sex marriage by a large majority, making it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages.
Denmark's church minister, Manu Sareen, called the vote "historic".
"I think it's very important to give all members of the church the possibility to get married. Today, it's only heterosexual couples."
Under the law, individual priests can refuse to carry out the ceremony, but the local bishop must arrange a replacement for their church.
The far-Right Danish People's Party mounted a strong campaign against the new law, which nonetheless passed with the support of 85 of the country's 111 MPs.
"Marriage is as old as man himself, and you can't change something as fundamental," the party's church spokesperson Christian Langballe said during the debate. "Marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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.
According to liberal judges the 14th Amendment trumps the 10th Amendment and the 1st Amendment. Just try to refuse to bake a couple of gays wedding cake and you will be hauled before a judge and sued into oblivion and FORCED to bake the cake.
If such an edict is handed down to Christian churches here in the U.S., that’ll draw some major pushback.
Churches in this article are congregations of the State Lutheran Church. That is the term meant by Denmark’s Churches. Denmark, unlike the United States, has a government-run Lutheran Church, that is sponsored by the taxpayers of Denmark, which is legislated by the government of Denmark. It is not synonymous with the Catholics, the Muslims, etc.
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.
As if that will stop our own home-grown homo-Nazis.
No "lort, lars". Danish version of "no shit, Sherlock."
:o)
Oh, please! If we haven't meaningfully pushed back by now, it will never happen. We are a lost society.
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.
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So true.
However, you know that there is a comfort zone in a state run church that many people feel, especially in a typical "nanny state."
People and government can make your life miserable. Suffering because you obey the Lord will make your next life paradise.
But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29)
No doubt we're a lost society... I'm referring to churches themselves, if they were ever pointedly directed to perform homo "weddings."
Another “historical” IN YOUR FACE moment from the Gaystapo.
How is sin Luther’s fault?
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