AFA Journal - Will a gay marriage storm csh your church?

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• MOZILLA BOSS BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE STORM
• A STORM OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• 'GATHERG STORM' SPOOFS: WHICH CELEBRY GAY-MARRIAGE PARODY RAS MORE LGHS?
• GAY MARRIAGE CS STORMS
• SNP LEARSHIP NTT: KATE FORB MPAIGN ON THE BRK AS GAY MARRIAGE STORM THREATENS TO ENGULF HER
• A STORM A TEACUP? GAY MARRIAGE THE COE
• EVEN AS STORM IAN APPROACH, CUBA FOC ON NTROVERSIAL REFERENDUM ON GAY MARRIAGE
• A GAYTHERG STORM
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• A STORM OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE'S THE GAY-MARRIAGE STORM WE WERE PROMISED?
• SNP LEARSHIP NTT: KATE FORB MPAIGN ON THE BRK AS GAY MARRIAGE STORM THREATENS TO ENGULF HER
• GAY MARRIAGE CS STORMS

GAY MARRIAGE

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

MOZILLA BOSS BRENDAN EICH RIGNS AFTER GAY MARRIAGE STORM

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.

A STORM OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry.

'GATHERG STORM' SPOOFS: WHICH CELEBRY GAY-MARRIAGE PARODY RAS MORE LGHS?

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

GAY MARRIAGE CS STORMS

Social media ers ially shared vio of the church engulfed flam wh posts ntag homophobic rhetoric and cricizg the church’s stance on LGBTQ+ issu. “A church Boston where homosexual upl who were nductg a weddg set’s on fire after beg stck by lightng.

SNP LEARSHIP NTT: KATE FORB MPAIGN ON THE BRK AS GAY MARRIAGE STORM THREATENS TO ENGULF HER

“Church burnt down by a lighteng, Boston, In the USA, durg a marriage ceremony of homosexual uple. "Mr Eich has also stepped down om the board of the Mozilla Foundatn, the non-prof anisatn which owns the for-prof Mozilla ersMr Eich, who -found Mozilla and was also the creator of the JavaScript scriptg language, ma a $1, 000 (£600) donatn 2008 support of Californian anti-gay marriage law Proposn 8.

"Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay upl. (Read "Dpe Ws for Gay Marriage, Obstacl Rema.

The storm is the gay marriage bate. Those are an April 3 Iowa supreme urt lg and the Vermont legislature's cisn to overri a ernor's veto on April 7, makg the stat the third and fourth the untry where gay marriage is now legal.

A STORM A TEACUP? GAY MARRIAGE THE COE

) In rponse to the recent addns, the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage shed out this omo new televisn ad ahead of schle, featurg monologu om parents, teachers and doctors gay marriage battleground stat worried about what same-sex unns mean for their eedom. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocy anizatn, got s hands on some of the characters' very watchable dn tap.

5 ln on such ads over the next few years and is airg the storm mercial stat like New York ( where Governor David Paterson has jt asked for a gay marriage bill), New Jersey and New Hampshire, all expected to be the next battlegrounds the marriage bate.

EVEN AS STORM IAN APPROACH, CUBA FOC ON NTROVERSIAL REFERENDUM ON GAY MARRIAGE

July-Augt 2015 – “Our church is not dog a gay weddg!

Church who hold a biblil view of marriage have asked AFA how to prepare for the day they are asked to perform a homosexual marriage. That is an urgent qutn, pecially any state that has legalized homosexual marriage or fed genr preference as a protected stat unr s nondiscrimatn laws.

Even if your state do not have gay marriage yet, your church may want to take some pnt steps to protect self. A ngregatn n rpond to God’s ll while safeguardg s relig liberty through three areas of preparatn regardg society’s normalizatn of homosexualy. The seventh mandment, “You shall not m adultery, ” protects the sexual relatnship between a man and woman who are uned marriage by forbiddg maral fily, pre-maral sex, homosexualy, btialy, and the e of pornography (Exod 20:14).

A GAYTHERG STORM

Outsi biblil marriage, God’s standard for sex is celibacy, sayg “no” to both heterosexual and homosexual lts (Matthew 5:27-30). Homosexual behavr is sful and unnatural (Romans 1:24-28).

Like other sexual temptatns to s, homosexual lt is highly addictive and difficult to stop. Although God’s grace is sufficient to five and cleanse om all s, that do not guarantee that a “fiven and cleansed” homosexual will velop heterosexual feelgs. It will sound reasonable to the public when the ernment says that no person who acts as an agent of the state may discrimate agast homosexual upl.

If the law of your state prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, will be easy to sue the preacher for illegal discrimatn if yterday he acted as a state agent marryg a heterosexual uple, but today he ref to act as a state agent marryg a homosexual uple. Conductg church weddgs whout termixg the civil functn should remove the greatt risk that a state will attempt to erce a church to perform a homosexual marriage ceremony. In recent years, Christian bakers, photographers, florists, and a mp-meetg associatn have been prosecuted for refg to provi servic or facili for gay weddgs.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

In that se, if you live a state that has legalized gay marriage, you may be required to rent your facili for a homosexual uple’s weddg.

Homosexual activists have fought doggedly for the legalizatn of gay marriage, hopg that if society will label their relatnships “marriage, ” their hunger to feel accepted and approved will be satisfied.

However, gay marriage will not mask a homosexual’s sense of alienatn for long, bee that alienatn aris om the temptatn all people face – rebelln agast God and His created orr.

A STORM OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Homosexuals’ misplaced hope gay marriage is likely to leave gay activists even more belligerent toward people who label their sexual behavr as s.

The tortuo prediment which the legalizatn of homosexual marriage entraps homosexuals wh false hope lls for holy and merciful rpons om Christ’s church.

WHERE'S THE GAY-MARRIAGE STORM WE WERE PROMISED?

The sk is funny, but tak too much time buildg up to s ma punchle, that a “gay ra army” will fall, er, dance om the sky a choreographed dance number.

Buzz·Posted on Apr 9, 2009The latt anti-gay marriage mpaign suggts that gay marriage is gog to e some kd of epic end of the world storm. PolicsKate Forb’s mpaign to bee the next first mister and SNP lear is on the brk of llapse after she me unr staed fire for her socially nservative views on issu such as gay fance secretary, who was prevly seen as a ontnner to replace Nila Sturgeon, began sheddg support jt hours after sayg she would not have voted for same-sex marriage.

Cuba, which held a high-stak, island-wi referendum on gay marriage and other fay rights on Sunday, downplayed preparatns as Tropil Storm Ian approached, even as projectns for the storm have htg the wtern si of the island as a Category 2 hurrine on s 5 p. ”The referendum on a fay that would allow gay marriage and surrogacy pregnanci among other thgs is beg held after strong opposn voiced by relig groups and activists reluctant to participate what the ernment has also portrayed as a vote support of socialism. There is a storm beg ed by gay marriage and we are all ser trouble.

SNP LEARSHIP NTT: KATE FORB MPAIGN ON THE BRK AS GAY MARRIAGE STORM THREATENS TO ENGULF HER

This is a parody of NOM's Anti-Gay Marriage PSA. Wrten by Liz Feldman and Mike RoseDirected by Liz Feldman, Mike Rose, Lren PalmigianoProduced by Liz Feldman, Mike Rose, Lren Palmigiano and Mike FarahDirector of Photography: Brad SchulzEdg and Special Effects by: Brad SchulzGay Radrops: Lren Palmigiano and Pete ZiasSpecial Thanks: Billy Lazus and Greg Clark. In an ironic twist of fate, a tornado touched the nventn center on Wednday where legat om the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri (ELCA) gathered to bate and then vote on a statement that acknowledg there are "differg views on homosexualy.

On Wednday, the legat voted favor of the statement that says the nomatn is pable of stayg together, spe nflictg opns on what the Bible teach about homosexualy. The nomatn is schled to vote Friday on whether to allow homosexuals mted relatnships to serve as clergy. "For , this isn't about sex, " said Ryan Schwarz, a lay lear of a nservative group wh the church that oppos the gay clergy.

"There's no qutn about the thory of Scripture" the Lutheran Church, said Phil Soucy of Lutherans Concerned, a pro-gay-rights group. A church meetg do not have the thory to overturn what the Bible clearly teach about marriage and about homosexual behavr. Members of Lutheran CORE (Coaln for Reform) have been workg to feat the proposal to affirm homosexualy wh the Lutheran Church and allow pastors to be same-sex relatnships.

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The social statement lays a theologil foundatn for a liberalized policy on gay clergy.

ELCA officials said shouldn't be assumed that passage of the social statement tomatilly means the proposal on gay clergy will be approved.

The Associated Prs reports that the 34-page social statement actually touch on homosexualy only briefly, and is tend as a sweepg fn of the ELCA's approach to matters of human sexualy. But acrdg to Larson, also acknowledg an utter lack of nsens toward homosexualy and same-sex relatnships across the ELCA's membership. The statement's drafters agreed that such differg views uld be acodated bee the homosexualy issue is "not central to our fah, " Larson said.