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Contents:

• WAG UNTIL MARRIAGE: GAY CHRISTIANS NAVIGATE FAH AND SEXUALY
• 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?
• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE
• GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT
• HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 2)
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.

WAG UNTIL MARRIAGE: GAY CHRISTIANS NAVIGATE FAH AND SEXUALY

"The uple talked onle for a few months before cidg to meet at a Wt Coast gatherg of the Gay Christian Network. Although not a datg service, the Gay Christian Network's gathergs provi a unique opportuny for dividuals like David and Constanto Khalaf. In mastream evangelil culture, to which many WUM'ers subscribe, masturbatn is taboo, often viewed as sful, and sometim seen as a form of homosexualy.

For LGBTQ Christians wag until marriage, masturbatn n add a layer of shame rooted ternalized homophobia. It has weled gay people sce 1976, when s General Conventn cid that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church. I’ve worked up a good lather the so-lled “culture war” around homosexualy and same-sex marriage for about two s now.

However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. This is more than mere relig happy talk — ’s tth whether one is gay, straight, or otherwise.

3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

J wasn't silent on homosexualy. Some claim J never said anythg about homosexualy and therefore is ntral on the topic. Author Jackie Hill Perry shar her own story of turng om homosexualy and fdg wholens a new inty Christ.

In Gay Girl, Good God, thor Jackie Hill Perry shar her own story of turng om s and fdg wholens. Jackie grew up fatherls and experienced genr nfn which led her to embrace masculy and homosexualy as her inty.

First, a word of enuragement: if you are the kd of iend that a gay uple would ve to their weddg, then you are probably dog somethg right.

SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

Homosexualy is jt one of many ss listed 1 Corthians 6:9-10 that will keep a person om the kgdom of God.

Some would ntend that a Christian should have no qualms about attendg a gay weddg and that one’s prence at a gay weddg do not necsarily dite support for the homosexual liftyle.

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE

The problem is that a gay weddg is a celebratn of two people who are livg a liftyle that God clar to be immoral and unnatural (Romans 1:26-27). “Marriage should be honored by all” (Hebrews 13:4), but a gay weddg dishonors marriage by pervertg s meang. Unlike weddgs of those other fahs, a gay weddg do not qualify as a marriage, acrdg to what God clar marriage to be.

A gay unn is not a marriage God’s ey. Suppose a Christian uld attend a gay weddg and somehow munite clearly that he is supportg only the dividuals gettg married and not their liftyle.

There is no way around the fact that a gay weddg ceremony is a celebratn of s. In the same way, we support a homosexual iend by helpg him out of the liftyle, not by signg a gut book at a celebratn of homosexualy.

GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT

It is good to seek opportuni to wns to and show kdns and love to our gay iends. However, such motivatns are misguid when to attendg a gay weddg. If ved to a gay weddg, is our nvictn that a believer J Christ should rpectfully cle.

HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 2)

A gay weddg is not an issue the Bible explicly addrs. There fely is no “you shall” or “you shall not” God’s Word regardg attendg a gay weddg.

Based on the reasons and prcipl listed above, we nnot envisn a scenar which attendg a gay weddg would be the right thg to do. Should a Christian attend the weddg of a gay uple?

Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado baker who refed based on his Christian beliefs to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state’s anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The cisn also did not addrs important claims raised the se cludg whether bakg a ke is a kd of exprsive act protected by the Constutn’s ee speech of the urt’s four liberals, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joed the five nservative jtic the lg thored by Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who also wrote the landmark 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage baker se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative sis claimed a measure of victory. The uple’s supporters noted that the lg embraced the importance of gay rights and ma clear that bs open to the public mt serve everyone. “Our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, ” Kennedy Kennedy said the state missn’s hostily toward relign “was nsistent wh the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

”Kennedy said the missn led the oppose way three s brought agast bakers which the bs owners refed to bake k ntag msag that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage.

J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.

“The First Amendment prohibs ernments om discrimatg agast cizens on the basis of relig beliefs, ” Attorney General Jeff Ssns said a cisn ma clear that even if the urt ultimately l a future se that bakers or other bs that sell creative products such as florists and weddg photographers n avoid punishment unr anti-discrimatn laws, most bs open to the public would have no such the 50 stat, 21 cludg Colorado have anti-discrimatn laws protectg gay se marked a tt for Kennedy, who has thored signifint lgs that advanced gay rights but also is a strong advote for ee speech rights and relig eedom.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy a wrten dissent, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg, joed by fellow liberal Sonia Sotomayor, said what mattered was that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, was part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court’s gay marriage lg. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal. Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is nsistent wh their Christian beliefs have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the practice.