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There is another way. A couple is married by the state to receive marriage lisence. The wedding ceremony is performed by clergy to unite couple before God.
Thank you so much. Your article was very helpful and inspiring. We as believers of Christ must stand for Christ regardless of the consequences. We must pray more and take back what the enemy has stolen and change the hearts of those who oppose God’s standards. The root of the problem is spiritual. Fix the problem and there will be no demand for same sex marriages.
thank you
Just think, we started a revolution because we weren’t given equal representation in Parliament. We have no representation now either!! apparently the Supreme Court will dictate our laws now instead of upholding them! Whatever happened to STATES RIGHTS??
And let’s stop interracial marriage, too!!! Jesus was a fraud. There is no god. Religion is a security blanket for those afraid of the dark.
Sounds like a club I don’t want to be in!
I DID THAT 5 YEARS AGO IN SOUTH AFRICA. Our church constitution only decrees “to conduct marriage between a man with a God created-penis and a woman with vagina only”. Futhermore there is a clause which states: “WE DO NOT MARRY HOMOSEXUALS AND WE SHALL NEVER, HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN”, THEREFORE, WHETHER GOVERNMENT LIKES IT OR NOT, we shall never be obliged to follow any other god. MARRIAGE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS BETWEEN ADAM THE PENISED MALE man, and eve the woman who had vagina in between her legs. That clause is approved by government department stamp (in our approved church constitution).
Homosexuality is an abomination to God, interracial dating is not a sin that’s for sure. You cannot compare the two
You have every right to your opinion.
You have every right to your opinion.
Freedom God want is to be free,only God can judge and now people from church want to destroy us,love is the power of life’s
Freedom God want is to be free,only God can judge and now people from church want to destroy us,love is the power of life’s
It’s brilliant, I have the world of respect for Dr Mattera, he was once my Pastor in Ny. As a matter of fact him and his leadership prayed and send me off when I left Ny for Miami, today i feel blessed to be the senior Pastor of Kendall Oasis Church.
Actually, the first thing they should do is READ the New Testament and begin to live their lives in a Christ-like manner.
How the church adopted these principles I think it will work.
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This article is just that bigot shit that we don’t need in this country… Many of you Religious lunatics need to focus on serving your gods then trying to dictate other people’s lives… I’m so sick of America and its RIDICULOUS way of having people think that everyone should follow what insane beliefs the next person does. Everyone keeps saying whats in the bible… Okay??? Something that’s in a book YOU people base YOUR lives off of has nothing to do with the rest of us innocent Humans trying to live a life not clouded by fear of a wrathful, jealous god who constantly needs to be praised and appeased… TUH! It should be ILLEGAL for churches to not honor this law…. You people disgust me….
When the Lord comes back, it will all be taken care of.
Good job
This is, of course, assuming each of these policies are already in the church’s bylaws as it pertains to peforming weddings for people who have already been married and are divorced for non-biblically sanctioned reasons, right? And make sure those people are disqualfiied for membership as stated in recommendation # 3.
Don’t hate that’s evil, but Love all people, that’s our position as followers of Christ. Vengeance is mine saith the Lord I will repay.
Biblical marriage is a man arranging to buy a girl from her father for an agreed upon purchase price (Genesis 29:18).
Biblical marriage is a wife “giving”, regardless of her maid servant’s wishes, her servant to her husband as a “wife” for sex and procreation (Genesis 16:2-3, Genesis 30:3, Genesis 30:9, etc.)
Biblical marriage is a raiding party murdering the fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters of a people but saving the young virgins because they want “wives” [i.e. women to capture and rape, legally] (Judges 21:10-14)
Biblical marriage is a raiding party lying in wait to capture more women as “wives” to legally rape (Judges 21:20-24)
Biblical marriage is a victim being forced to marry her rapist with no hope of divorce [but don’t worry – her father is suitably compensated in cash for the trouble, and this is only valid if the woman is not already another man’s property…so relax, no property rights are violated by this arrangement!] (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
Biblical marriage is selling your daughter as a slave to be given to her owner or owner’s son for sexual exploitation as a “wife” [though denied the minimal protections of a wife] (Exodus 21:7-11)
‘Merica! Fuck yeah! Land of the free (as long as you are white, Christian, and heterosexual) and home of the brave ( unless you are not white, Christian and heterosexual, then it is a land of intolerance, hatred and fear)
A world where everyone is the same, acts the same, lives the same way, believes the same way, sounds pretty fucking terrible. Celebrate differences, don’t fear them. Atrocities happen all over the world everyday, where people are killed. Killed! People are starving and dying, women are beaten and mutilated, children are kidnapped and forced into sex trades, and you waste time worrying that two people who are lucky enough to have found each other, fallen in love and chose to have a life together are an abomination against your god? Time to grow up people, get the hate out of your hearts, and start being a citizen of humanity, where different does not mean wrong, it means not like you and that’s OK.
The thing is religious zealots have the audacity to say that marriage equality is an attack on their religious freedom. It isn’t and never has been. If you don’t like the idea of gays getting married – your recourse is simple as apple pie: don’t marry someone who has the same genitals you have! Yep – Minding your own business is free. I don’t understand why so many folks are mad about something that has absolutely no effect on their own lives! And are even going out of their Holy little way to stop people from living…
I absolutely love this……
Susan Farina,
The first thing you should do is read the New Testament. If you did perhaps you would know what God has to say about same sex marriage (homosexuality).
Since when did Christianity become synonomous with irrational hatred. My Bible says God is LOVE and Jesus advocated “Love thy neighbor.” He also was an advocate of tolerance, which these churches today seem to completely overlook. I only hope that when some of these so called “Christians” get to the gates of Paradise, Liberace is there to greet them with a welcoming smile and a big ol’ bear hug.
Jesus would cry over this article and ask you to think harder about helping lepers and feeding the poor. Your hate exceeds your love. I pray for you.
Did you know that in the synaptic process of the brain scientists are now saying that on the sub-atomic level the lack of ability to predict the occurrence of nano-sized particles, indicates to them that something from outside the physical universe intervenes in order for a conscious individual to experience what we call ‘thought.’ Or one might say you can’t even think without God. And perhaps this the very concept the Bible is referring to when it says, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” It explains a lot.
Hard to believe people can be so utterly paranoid. Gay people are now allowed to marry the people they love, and some of you Christians act like they where given permission to now closet you and impose the same kind of ugly hateful treatment you imposed in them for centuries. Karma’s a bitch but you seriously need to get a hold of ourselves.Other Christians that helped gays realize this moment are shaking their heads at you. stop the paranoia.
We get anti God laws because we as Christians vote for anti God men in office, I am not knowlegeable in politics but I have learned the following. I am sharing this because it took one question to determine who is for family values and who are against family values.
In Canada the Conservative political party is the only party that has family values. Liberal party has no moral value left.
We in Canada do have a Prime Minister who is a Christian and has family values. 80% of Conservative representative would have family values. The Liberals is the opposite.
In the USA you have the Republican and the Democrats. Your Republicans are like our Conservatives and your Democrates are like our Liberals. Liberals have anti family values (also anti God) .
What did I use to dertermine the good politicians from the bad? Well when I first decided to vote I had a dozen questions. I called the newspaper to see if they could ask my question to each so I could know the good politician who had family values. They told me I had too many questions so they could not ask them.
Here is my question that I have used and I have been more accurate than many seasoned lovers of Politics.
“What do you think of abortion” ( killing of babies ) That is my question to every politician. In all my years in dealing with business men not a single business man agrees with killing babies. Not a single business man believes in killing babies.
Liberals politicians have to agree in killing babies or else one cannot run under their flag. NDP another political party also has it that if you do not believe in killing babies you cannot run under their flags. .
If you believe in having Family values in our country then we as Christians or non Christians must stop voting for anti God people in office,
As a Christian you only have one party to support God values. In Canada it is the Conservatives. In the USA it is the Republicans.
A vote any other way is voting for anti God. Very simple.
Hope you enjoyed my basic 101 how to determine the good guys from the bad.
As Christian we have a responsibility to vote properly not just who lies the best. We all know who the father of liars are do we?
there’s one more thing churches need to do..rescind their NPO status right now. WHY? They are effectively taking gov’t subsidies via the tax bypass.
http://hcs.hescominsoon.com/archives/5509
Thanks for the above information. What can we do as Pastors of Non-membership churches?
Amen!
I didn’t get married in a church just the justice of the peace..and itwas ok with me a whole lot cheaper..oh well,,life is as it goes…
My church just amended the church by laws and it said that only members could get married in the church and/or relatives that had to be approved could be married there. I was a little taken back by the attitude but it is in the south…
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