The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week.
Contents:
- WHAT DO CHRISTIANS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE SAY ABOUT THE BIBLE?
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- SAME BIBLE, DIFFERENT VERDICT ON GAY MARRIAGE
- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
WHAT DO CHRISTIANS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE SAY ABOUT THE BIBLE?
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More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). In an say published this morng Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple wr, "I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me.
" Cook pots out that his sexual orientatn has given him a eper unrstandg of what means to be part of a mory muny, that has ma him more empathetic, more nfint and not so easily upset by Christians regnize the unique gifts that gay people brg to our ngregatns and support marriage equaly for gay and straight upl. "Fally I unrstood that he was talkg about - our church's posn on gay marriage.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
After I told him that I support gay people who want to be able to marry, he sisted a few tim, "What about the Bible?
"For me the Bible is not about homosexualy. J beiends outsts, people who were hated much the same way we see gay people treated today. But surely he do not have md the longterm gay upl we know who live together fahfully and have looked after each other for s.
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THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
Perhaps you believe that homosexual behavr is biblilly unacceptable. Even if I don’t agree wh , shouldn’t those who intify as gay and lbian still have the same eedom I have to get married? The state is not threateng to crimalize homosexual behavr.
The state is not gog to prohib those homosexual relatnships om mtg themselv to each other public ceremoni or relig celebratns. The tablishment of gay “marriage” enshr law a flty view of marriage, one that says marriage is sentially a monstratn of mment sexually exprsed. If Christians lose the cultural bate on homosexualy, we will lose much more than we thk.
See Katy Fst’s strikg article, “Dear Jtice Kennedy: An Open Letter om the Child of a Lovg Gay Parent, ” which she matas that she is “one of many children wh gay parents who believe we should protect marriage” bee “the ernment’s tert marriage is about the children that only male-female relatnships n produce. This analogy is taken om Voddie Bcham, “Gay Is Not the New Black, ” July 19, 2012, TGC,. Crawford, “Mechanism, Public Reason, and the Anthropology of Orientatn: How the Debate over ‘Gay Marriage’ Has Been Shaped by Some Ubiquo but Unexamed Assumptns, ” Humanum (Fall 2012): 8; available onle at /pdfs/CRAWFORD_SSU_ma_17pp_(fal).
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
This article is adapted om What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy? 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. 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.
SAME BIBLE, DIFFERENT VERDICT ON 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.
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
As Christians, we are lled to love our gay and lbian neighbors (John 14:34), which is why we mt not and nnot support same-sex marriage.