The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991.
Contents:
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week. * do lutherans allow gay marriage *
Acrdg to a recent study by Pew Rearch Center, the major relig groups Ameri that prohib gay marriag clu Amerin Baptist Church, Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats (Mormon), Islam, and Roman Catholicism. 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.
In 1991, the Churchwi Assembly passed a rolutn statg that, "Gay and lbian people, as dividuals created by God, are wele to participate fully the life of the ngregatns of the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri.
” God did not create people as or to be homosexuals or lbians any more than He created people as or to be thiev, child abers, or alholics. Those who claim that God ma them as or to be homosexuals or lbians are mtg blasphemy agast the holy name of God. As nfsors of the Lord J Christ Who has reemed om s, ath, and the power of the vil, and Who has washed clean by His blood, we believe that God earntly sir the salvatn of homosexuals and lbians.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
God – numero plac His Word – nmns thepractice of homosexualy and lbianism: Genis 19:1-23; Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26-28; 1 Corthians 6:9-10.
In 1 Corthians 6 the apostle Pl clearly shows that the ss of homosexualy and lbianism are no more ser than any other s, but that they are s. The posn of the Church of the Lutheran Confsn is that homosexual unns are clearly and explicly forbidn the Old and New Ttaments (Levic 18:22, 24; 20:13; 1 Corthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:9-10) bee they are ntrary to the Creator’s sign and will (Romans 1:26-27). The posns and beliefs n be found the “Onle Library” sectn of the CLC Webse, along wh other statements, papers, and reports on the subject of homosexualy and same-sex civil unns and “marriage.
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.