The Methodist Church spl over gay marriage, explaed - Vox

Contents:

• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY WEDDGS CHURCH
• WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
• GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• FERAL URT L RONLLI CATHOLIC SCHOOL, ARCHDCE WAS ALLOWED TO FIRE A 2ND GAY UNSELOR
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed. ) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church.

3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

Frank Schaefer, a Methodist pastor who had performed a same-sex marriage ceremony for his gay son. Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage.

Overall, a solid majory of whe male Prottants (62%) now favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, wh jt 33% opposed, acrdg to a 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey. A siar share (63%) say there is “no nflict” between their relig beliefs and homosexualy. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Patrick's Semary, offered the remarks as part of a panel on Gay Marriage held Jan. Social nservativ are not only ncerned about marriage, but also the rise of a gay and lbian culture.

Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns. The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians.

In every class, for the past 20 odd years, I have ved a gay former stunt, Lee FzGerald, to speak on gay relatnships. My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny.

GAY WEDDGS CHURCH

The attus of Santa Clara stunts have evolved signifintly the last two s vis à vis gay and lbian relatnships.

My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns. This is jt as te if the person is gay, lbian, or straight. A gay or lbian orientatn is not a matter of choice but simply the way an dividual is.

A person is born gay and lbian and grows up this way; is not a matter of cisn, one possibily among others for the mature dividual. G., Anglinism: re of blsg New Wtmster, Canada; nsecratn of Gene Robson as an openly gay bishop.

WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?

"Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially.

Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend. 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.

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

I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

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. Inclive church are beg more mon now but where n you host a gay weddg church? History of Gay Marriage the the 26th of June 2005 the U.

It is important to remember that the first official lawsus requtg regnn of same-sex relatnships started as early as the the early 1950’s ONE magaze published a ver on homosexual marriage which post officials taed whilst they worked to tablish whether was too obscene for the was a long fight for equaly that still rag on many cultur and religns today.

ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS

In Yemen for example there is still laws agast homosexualy that rult imprisonment or even Church n Gay People get Married ? AnglinIn June 2003 the Anglins appoted their first openly gay bishop which ed a crisis the muny.

The Associatn of Welg and Affirmg Bapts are mted to advotg for the full cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people wh the church. CatholicThe Amerin Natnal Catholic Church allows women and gay dividuals to receive holy orrs and they regnise same-sex marriage.

ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

Unlike the Roman Catholic nomatns they are fully clive and perform gay marriag. LutheranIn Augt 2009, the Evangelil Lutheran Church voted to let ngregatns ll and orda gays and lbians meed monogamo relatnships to be people of the clergy. Blsgs of same-sex marriag have been allowed sce 2009 but was only 2015 when same-sex marriage was legalized did the pridg bishop allowg each ngregatn to choose to eher marry or not marry gay upl.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

MethodistAcrdg to a survey by Pew Rearch, the majory of Uned Methodist church the US supports the cln of gay people. 60% advote for homosexualy to be accepted by society whilst only 40% support same-sex marriage. They do not believe that is a s to be homosexual, bisexual or Apostolic Pentestals have been active sce 1980 when they first began to anize separately om the male church for the purpose of clivy.

They have been adamant agast homosexualy wh their relign, gog as far as label a ‘sickns’ and a ‘s’ 2021, they fally allowed ngregatns to make their own polic on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage wh church eply rooted eher Importance of RelignSoclogil studi over the years have shown that when the dividuals enterg the marriage value relign that they enjoy greater stabily and higher levels of satisfactn. A Christian n e at the issue of gay marriage om several different directns.

To a person—Christian or not—who is an tegral, lovg part of the world, gay marriage almost mak sense. This is the dilemma for some Christians regardg gay marriage: do we agree wh what God says or follow the wisdom of the world? The passage relat to the issue of gay marriage on two levels.

POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

The wisdom and logic of the world may very well dite that gay marriage is a basic right. But no one who is learned the Bible n hontly say that the Bible supports homosexual relatnships.

The passage also shows how gay marriage relat to the cross. Many Christians, particularly those who are theologilly and/or polilly nservative, are not encumbered wh sympathetic feelgs regardg homosexual behavr. Gay marriage has been accepted by many untri, and that acceptance is likely to spread.

GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

The agenda to normalize homosexualy by legally regnizg same-sex marriage is well on s way. Homosexualy is a rult of the rejectn of God (Romans 1:21-25). Gay marriage is the stutnalizatn of the rejectn of God.

Perhaps gay marriage do herald the end of the world, but that's what we've been lookg forward to, anyway (Revelatn 22:20).

The Bible teach how Christians should rpond to gay marriage.

FERAL URT L RONLLI CATHOLIC SCHOOL, ARCHDCE WAS ALLOWED TO FIRE A 2ND GAY UNSELOR

The Church “implor fai and church not to reject or nmn lbian and gay members and iends. Homosexualy was first openly bated at General Conference 1972, four years after the formatn of The Uned Methodist Church, rultg the addn of first statement on homosexualy.

While affirmg belief that persons of homosexual orientatn are persons of sacred worth who need the mistry and guidance of the church, the statement add that the church “do not ndone the practice of homosexualy and nsirs this practice patible wh Christian teachg.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Sce that time, the church has mataed the posn that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Based on the posns about homosexual practice and marriage, the Church has also mataed rtrictns regardg clergy.

Pastors may not be “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals” and may not nduct ceremoni that celebrate same-sex weddgs or unns. Wh a body of over 12 ln members globally, Uned Methodists are not of one md about how to be mistry wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.

Some members feel strongly that the church should uphold s current stanc regardg gay clergy and marriage.