It wouldn’t matter to me. Granted, I’m not gay, but I doubt many gay folk would care. The issue, now as always, is what the government recognizes as marriage. What the Church does or doesn’t consider to be marriage is beside the point.
If they only care what the government thinks, why do they sue Christians for not going along with them on the idea? It obviously has an impact on everyone including parents whose children will be taught in school that their parents are bigots for not believing in same-sex “marriage”.
Who is suing what Christians?
If you’re in Canada, pastors/priests can be legally prosecuted for refusing to “marry” homosexuals:
This article says that marriage commissioners, appointed by a government that recognizes SSMs, are not allowed to deny SSCs the right to marry on the basis of their religious convictions. It doesn’t say that priests or pastors can be legally prosecuted for refusing to marry homosexuals. The one guy that got fined $2,500 (and kept his job) was only identified as a devout Baptist.
Precisely. This isn’t the time to cave into pressure even though we are probably all feeling battle fatigue over this issue. I’ll speak for myself; I definitely feel it.
uch: But those who are trying to wear us down will know they’re succeeding if we start trying to find little compromises here and there. Slippery slope, you know.I think you are right. I guess I was expressing the battle fatigue with this idea. As MidnightSun12 said, “The only way to fight satan is head on!”.Precisely. This isn’t the time to cave into pressure even though we are probably all feeling battle fatigue over this issue. I’ll speak for myself; I definitely feel it.
Gay marriage has been legal for the vast majority of Canadians since 2004, and legal for all Canadians since 2005. Can you point out any evidence of destruction of any traditional marriages, which has resulted from that?
I don’t favor gay marriage. But I see such language, and the Pope’s, predicted the doom of civilization to be overwrought.
With all the generations that have come and gone since 2004 there should be plenty of data to go on.
I… I don’t think it is…
You are comparing apples to oranges. There is no threat that courts will rule in favor of putting homosexuals to death. But there is a very real threat to Christians of being sued for not going along with so-called same-sex “marriage” and the courts ruling against them. Those of us who disagree with so-called “same-sex marriage” are increasingly vilified by the propaganda in the mainstream media, and I believe that it won’t be long until this vilification leads to violence against Christians.
You misunderstood my point. The poster I was replying to was trying to argue that homosexuals want all people to unconditionally accept homosexuality as some homosexuals are suing people who won’t let them marry. This is, of course, nonsense and a logical fallacy. I could give examples of baptists that want homosexuals to be put to death. That doesn’t mean all baptists want homosexuals to be put to death. Understand?
If only the persecution was limited to marriage “commissioners”…
This is a fact:
If this were truly the reason the Church opposed same-sex marriages, then they would support same-sex civil unions, as they do not share the name of the sacrament. But they do not. Ergo, your reason for their opposition must be mistaken.
Same-sex “civil unions” are still a mortal sin and therefore are also unacceptable to the Catholic Church since, like so-called same-sex “marriage”, it’s strongly implied that it is an actively homosexual relationship.
There is definitely a movement to coerce individuals who do not agree with same sex marriage to be forced to comply despite holding a legitimate contrary moral position. A petition has been started on the petitions.whitehouse.gov site to brand the Catholic Church as a hate group because of its stand on marriage.
