Regardless of whether or not the church in question wishes to ‘marry’ them; i.e. churches will be forced to comply, or face penalties. (HT: Alkibiades)
Homosexual couples in Denmark have won the right to get married in any church they choose, even though nearly one third of the country’s priests have said they will refuse to carry out the ceremonies.
The country’s parliament voted through the new law on same-sex marriage by a large majority, making it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages.
Denmark’s church minister, Manu Sareen, called the vote “historic”.
“I think it’s very important to give all members of the church the possibility to get married. Today, it’s only heterosexual couples.”
Under the law, individual priests can refuse to carry out the ceremony, but the local bishop must arrange a replacement for their church.
Once again, we see that ‘gay rights’ activists don’t merely want increased ‘rights’ for themselves, but they want the State to bludgeon opponents of their ‘rights’ into conformity, through the application of the full force of the law. They truly are totalitarians.
You cannot force gay marriage on true Christians who believe in the word of God. The abomination that is homosexuality, try as these activists might, will never be accepted as ‘normal’. It goes against natural law.
It is indeed an abberation. It’s a sick and Godless world that clamours for the normalization of homosexuality and gay marriage, yet tramples on the religious freedom of Christians, thus denigrating their faith in the process.
Totalitarians, indeed, Will. Satan has them in the palm of his hand.
Indeed, Kathy. The one consolation we have, apart from knowing that ultimately, God is in control, is that such times as we live in tend to clarify things; true Christians will refuse to cooperate, even if it gets them fined, thrown in prison, tortured, killed; others who claim to be Christians but aren’t truly, will capitulate, and join the world, and their true colours will be visible for all to see…