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[Church of Scotland] Assembly Agrees Apology to Gay People and Accepts Same Sex Marriage Report
Church of Scotland ^ | 5/25/17

Posted on 05/26/2017 6:48:42 PM PDT by marshmallow

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has approved an apology to gay people for the history of discrimination they have faced in the Church.

Commissioners also approved a report which could pave the way to allow some ministers to conduct same sex marriages in the future.

The Assembly voted in favour of instructing the Legal Questions Committee to conduct new research into the availability of legal protection for any Minister or Deacon who refuse to officiate ceremonies as a matter of conscience.

A report of the committee’s findings will be presented to the General Assembly next year for further discussion.

Commissioners also agreed that the Church should take stock of its history of discrimination against gay people, at different levels and in different ways, and apologise “individually, corporately and seek to do better.”

Conscience

An amendment to recognise the Church’s doctrine and practice in matters of human sexuality and marriage was accepted by the General Assembly.

(Excerpt) Read more at churchofscotland.org.uk ...


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; scotland
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To: soycd

There’s no real difference. Wrong is wrong. Fornication is wrong. Adultery is wrong. Same-sex activity is wrong. This is in order of incidence.


21 posted on 05/26/2017 7:30:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: marshmallow

Guess they had to mark out some Bible verses they just could not adhere to!! Playing God is dangerous.

As someone said, countries are falling one by one by abandoning The Savior!


22 posted on 05/26/2017 7:34:26 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Ray76

>Your god appears to be man.

Yours, according to your index appears just like allah snackbars’ ...
>Leviticus 20:13
>”If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

ramadingdong, hala, dogma etc would be proud.


23 posted on 05/26/2017 7:36:37 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Tax-chick

>There’s no real difference. Wrong is wrong. Fornication is wrong. Adultery is wrong. Same-sex activity is wrong.

Yeah, I see it every time a 14-17 year old high school male gets caught up in the pretty female math teacher’s bedroom.

>This is in order of incidence.

Of course, on coarse. never deviate from the heading.


24 posted on 05/26/2017 7:39:09 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

I beg your pardon. I didn’t understand your point here.


25 posted on 05/26/2017 7:40:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Tax-chick

>I beg your pardon. I didn’t understand your point here.

Which words are giving you a problem?


26 posted on 05/26/2017 7:43:25 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. KJV

If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. NASB

Note: it does not say “put them to death”


27 posted on 05/26/2017 8:04:32 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76

>Note: it does not say “put them to death”

Okay, so we all die, naturally. What better way to die?


28 posted on 05/26/2017 8:13:50 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

If you don’t agree with Christian doctrine that’s your business. The topic of this thread is a church which purports to be Christian abandoning doctrine.


29 posted on 05/26/2017 8:19:20 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76

>If you don’t agree with Christian doctrine that’s your business. The topic of this thread is a church which purports to be Christian abandoning doctrine.

Oh, I apologize for resisting dogma and the search for truth instead of taking the actual word of someone we have never met.

If you have some actual writings or words from the perfect themselves, please share.


30 posted on 05/26/2017 8:26:43 PM PDT by soycd
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To: marshmallow
Scotland, you've come a long way baby!

John Knox

31 posted on 05/26/2017 9:04:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (My wish list: https, failover server, six sigma uptime.)
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To: marshmallow
Just another part of the great falling away. The false Prophets profits are leading their flocks astray.
32 posted on 05/26/2017 10:16:01 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: marshmallow

My great grandfather left Scotland in the early 1860s...


33 posted on 05/26/2017 10:20:29 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: marshmallow

Gay people need to apologize for being colloquial perverts and their supporters need to appologize for corrupting society in the name of evil.


34 posted on 05/26/2017 10:37:17 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

Proving yet again the prescience of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America as regards state-sponsored religion. Bad enough that a religious organization holds itself out as being guided by an ancient document they clearly contravene with this statement but they also do it in the name of the state to double-down on stupid. At least the various apostate denominations that abound on this side of the pond don’t hold that power.


35 posted on 05/27/2017 3:16:42 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: soycd
"... these followers of their personal desires are not harming innocents."

You be trippin', dude.

36 posted on 05/27/2017 7:15:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It's better to be slapped with the Truth than kissed with a Lie." - Russian Proverb)
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To: marshmallow
I've lost count of how many of us "old-timers" here on FR have said it .... it has ALWAYS been the goal of the homosexual agenda to tear down Christianity.

Period.

It was never just about "civil partnerships" or "gay marriage" it has always been about corrupting the word of God and the Church. "Normalizing" their behavior and forcing its acceptance is their end goal.

Corrupt churches and denominations are the result. To think, progressive liberals call themselves Christians and Christ followers when they are anything but.

Christ said to love the sinner, hate the sin.

Corrupting God's holy word is not loving the sinner and hating the sin. It's loving both and Satan is smiling broadly.

37 posted on 05/27/2017 7:25:22 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: marshmallow

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust...


38 posted on 05/27/2017 10:49:17 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: marshmallow

They have ZERO right to apologize for the biblical accuracy of their spiritual forebears.


39 posted on 05/30/2017 7:05:01 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

This shell of a “church” should now celebrate Easter by breaking down the door of a likeness of Lot’s house.


40 posted on 05/30/2017 7:06:18 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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