Church should do 'gay weddgs' says mister - The Christian Instute

Contents:

• FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• 6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• 50 MISTERS BLS GAY MARRIAGE OF BILL GATEWOOD AND RICK TAYLOR, SHOWG SOLIDARY WH REV. FRANK SCHAEFER
• GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
• CHURCH SHOULD DO ‘GAY WEDDGS’ SAYS MISTER

FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

We’ve earned a fantastic reputatn among the gay muny for our re and experience and would love to be a part of your weddg.

If you said someone was evangelil you knew pretty much what you were gettg – errancy of the Bible, importance of preachg, a foc on evangelism, warngs of hell and most of all – opposn to gay marriage. While still far om the mastream and the overwhelmg majory of self-scribed evangelils are still opposed to gay marriage, there are a growg list of pastors who scribe themselv as evangelil and yet support same sex upl. 'It has taken untls hours of prayer, study, nversatn and emotnal turmoil to brg me to the place where I am fally ready to ll for the full acceptance of Christian gay upl to the Church, ' he wrote.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

'Through [my wife] Peggy, I have e to know so many gay Christian upl whose relatnships work much the same way as our own. In a bate at San Francis's Grace Cathedral 2013, the thor and pastor Rob Bell, already discreded by many evangelils for his book Love Ws, gave a blanket endorsement of gay marriage. An outspoken cric of the Relig Right and print of the Sojourners magaze, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage an terview wh the Huffgton Post  2013.

Several of Jen Hatmaker's books have been produced by LifeWay's B&H Publishg, who announced they would no longer work wh her after she changed her stance on gay marriageFacebook / Jen Hatmaker. One of the relatively few proment female voic on the evangelil scene, Hatmaker received a fierce backlash when she said she thought God saw monogamo gay relatnships as holy. In an terview wh Relign News Service she said: 'From a spirual perspective, sce gay marriage is legal all 50 stat, our muni have plenty of gay upl who, jt like the rt of , need marriage support and parentg help and Christian muny.

Asked if she would attend a gay iend's weddg she said was an easy answer: 'I would attend that weddg wh gladns, and I would drk champagne.

6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

I want the very bt for my gay iends. The Southern Baptist church pastor om Los Angel, California, announced 2014 he is 'gay affirmg' and had accepted his son's homosexualy.

'In Augt of 2013, on a sunny day at the beach, I realized I no longer believed the tradnal [church] teachgs regardg homosexualy, ' Cortez said a letter published on Patheos blog.

'And was pecially the ttimony of my gay iends that helped me to see how they have been margalised that my ey beme open to the jtice that the church has wrought. That special missn nclud wh 53 percent of church lears and lay people votg to tighten language on s same-sex marriage ban at a general nference last Febary, a measure sayg “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

50 MISTERS BLS GAY MARRIAGE OF BILL GATEWOOD AND RICK TAYLOR, SHOWG SOLIDARY WH REV. FRANK SCHAEFER

Epispalians followed su 2018, expandg the right of gay ngregants to get married all ngregatns.

Pope Francis has drawn acclaim for sayg “Who am I to judge gay people?, ” but the Catholic Church has shown no sign of changg s strict anti-LGBTQ doctre.

Siarly, the Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the US, ntu to margalize LGBTQ ngregants, wh msag that have bee culture-war talkg pots agast queer rights — like homosexualy is not a “valid alternative liftyle” and “genr inty is termed by blogil sex and not by one’s self-perceptn. Do What Feels Right to YouUltimately the weddg ceremony is about you and your partner g together to wed— isn't a gay weddg or a lbian weddg, is your weddg and the ceremony script should reflect that. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

CHURCH SHOULD DO ‘GAY WEDDGS’ SAYS MISTER

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.