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Church of Sweden to conduct gay weddings
The governing board of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Uppsala, Sweden, passed the gay wedding proposal 176-73, the Swedish News Agency TT reported.
The decision came three days after the 30th anniversary of the date homosexuality stopped being classified a disease in Sweden.
"The Synod's decision takes a stance in favor of an inclusive view of people. Regardless of whether one is religious or not, this affects the entire social climate and the view of people's equal value," said Asa Regner, the head of the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education. The association is Sweden's largest gay-rights group.
Individual pastors will still be permitted to refuse to perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples.
Representatives of the Catholic and Orthodox churches in Sweden expressed their disapproval of the decision in a joint letter to Swedish Archbishop Anders Wejryd.
Church of England spokesman Steve Jenkins said relations between his church and the Church of Sweden may become strained because of the decision.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/22/2009
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10-26-2009 16:31
bobbyr54 wrote:
God and this church
Thank God for the people who spoke up here against the violations of God's own holy word. This one is no longer a church of God, but of Satan. I really liked that parts of Romans 1 was mentioned. We should also not forget that of Leviticus states in chapter 18:22 Do not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination. And in Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. Now Christ has come into the world to take on our sins. So people who practice homosexual acts must accept that it is sin and ask God for forgiveness and accept Christ into their souls. There's another spot in the New Testament that mentions this subject too in that murderers, adulteres, liars, theives, drunkards, and homosexuals, etc. will not enter the kingom of Heaven, but I couldn't find out where it actually was. Needless, to say, that God looks on the homosexual with loves, but hates the sin of homosexuality and wants those to recognize their sin and accept Christ as their saviour. But they can't do that if they continue to live this sin and listen to what the Lord has to say about it. This church by breaking with God's law will be brought down. Christ that anyone who causes one of his children to sin, it would have been better for them to never have been born, than to suffer the punishment that will come upon them. This church has apparently forgotten that.
10-25-2009 08:22
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Bunch of brain washed dumb aces!
10-24-2009 12:38
wrote:
THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF SPEACH FOR ME THANKS ARCA MAX
10-23-2009 22:09
JB wrote:
God's word regarding Homosexuality from Romans 1
18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason( God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason( God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
10-23-2009 17:10
RH wrote:
"No one can serve two masters. Unfortunately there are those who seem to want to walk in agreement with our enemies and to try and build an alliance between light and darkness, an accord between justice and iniquity."
(Pius XI)
(Pius XI)
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