Should a Christian attend the weddg of a gay uple? |

Contents:

• ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR "ARTHUR" EPISO WH GAY WEDDG
• PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP
• 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
• SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?
• WHY CHRISTIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORK AT GAY WEDDGS
• 'ARTHUR' EPISO WH GAY WEDDG BANNED IN ALABAMA
• WOMAN’S ‘UNIQUE’ AND ‘APPROPRIATE’ MEME-SPIRED DRS FOR GAY WEDDG DIVIS THE TER
• ARKANSAS PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR ‘ARTHUR’ EPISO WH GAY WEDDG
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• ALABAMA REF TO AIR ‘ARTHUR’ EPISO OVER GAY MARRIAGE STORYLE

ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR "ARTHUR" EPISO WH GAY WEDDG

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PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP

Children are not askg for their rtoon characters to be gay — activists the entertament dtry are forcg on them.

It is offensive to me and my fay that the work would glorify the homosexual liftyle.

'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE

”“Arthur, ” which premiered 1996, has prevly featured a gay character. The Forc of Evil" on the Disney Channel picted gay upl kissg among others durg a boy band ncert, sparkg outrage among pro-fay groups. The same year, the Disney kids seri "Andi Mack" featured a 13-year-old character who realiz he is gay and out to his iends.

Addnally, Disney's remake of "Bety and The Beast” clud an openly "gay moment" exprsed by LeFou, the sikick to the movie's antagonist, Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post.

“MR RATBURN IS GAY?? Your move Marvel…, ” wrote Rachel Gie, the director of edorial at is not the first time the “Arthur” seri has featured a gay character.

SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

” The anizatn c “Steven Universe, ” “Adventure Time” and “Loud Hoe” as some recent exampl of programmg that featur nuanced LGBTQ, featurg a gay marriage on a children’s televisn show remas revolutnary, acrdg to year, the s-old discsn over Bert and Ernie’s relatnship and sexual orientatn “Same Street” me to a standstill after Frank Oz, the creator of Bert, nied the character was gay. I know what and who he is, " Oz wrote on Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street, ” mataed that the puppets were gay. “I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty.

WHY CHRISTIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORK AT GAY WEDDGS

Wh that clarifyg ment, we n addrs the qutn head-on: Why would a Christian feel nscience bound not to attend or participate a gay weddg? Which is why—as much as I might want to build bridg wh a lbian iend or reassure a gay fay member that I re for him and want to have a relatnship wh him—I would not attend a same-sex weddg ceremony. If a gay uple next door v you over for dner, don't turn them down.

And, as paful as may be for and for those we love, celebratg and supportg homosexual unns is not somethg God or His Word will allow to do. The Knot lnched a fundraiser weddg registry for LGBT upl Alabama this week after the state’s public televisn channel refed to air an episo of the PBS show “Arthur” bee featured a gay weddg. Ratburn g out as gay and gettg married.

'ARTHUR' EPISO WH GAY WEDDG BANNED IN ALABAMA

gay rights. 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. 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. 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.

WOMAN’S ‘UNIQUE’ AND ‘APPROPRIATE’ MEME-SPIRED DRS FOR GAY WEDDG DIVIS THE TER

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.

ARKANSAS PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR ‘ARTHUR’ EPISO WH GAY WEDDG

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. 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.

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.

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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?

In a recent post, I argued that a photographer who ref to shoot a same-sex weddg isn't necsarily monstratg homophobia, bigotry, or anti-gay hatred. " On Twter, I've also remend Julian Sanchez's analysis on this failure to reflexively sist that anti-discrimatn laws, some of which I support, variably tmp all other societal terts, and my sistence that there are both siari and huge differenc between what blacks faced cir 1960 and what gays and lbians face today, have ed some rears to draw an accurate ncln: that I believe 's basilly unobjectnable for a photographer (say), when motivated by scere relig belief, to boytt same-sex weddgs.

Such remedi may be need, a given stance, to addrs anti-gay discrimatn. If gays Ameri were beg turned away om rtrants or hotel rooms as a class, if a private ambulance pany refed to answer emergency lls om a gay-weddg venue, or if a lol ernment agency were discrimatg agast gays and lbians hirg, I'd happily endorse a erced legal burn imposed on gays the se we're discsg—very ocsnally havg to choose a different weddg vendor for a subset of nuptial servic provid by profsnals engaged exprsive activy vered by the First Amendment—is thankfully ty parison to historic of nondiscrimatn, that isn't to say I thk 's right to discrimate agast gay weddgs this way. There n be no nyg that persuasn has radilly changed the attus of Amerins toward gays and lbians recent years.

ALABAMA REF TO AIR ‘ARTHUR’ EPISO OVER GAY MARRIAGE STORYLE

Everyone heartened by the spread of gay marriage, as I am, or enuraged by the backlash agast anti-gay bullyg, which ought to grow stronger still, n take heart the fact that every trend is movg the right there is wispread dismissal of persuasn as a ser remedy—and a siarly nfoundg certaty that fg photographers will prove more effective, even though non-discrimatn law has arguably done far ls for gay, let's try persuasn, if only this space.

Christian photographers should take pictur at gay weddgs wh a clear nscience.