"Multi-culturalism is a new word, much bandied about these days by opinion-formers in the political and business elites. It is not really about cultural diversity, still less land rights, and least of all individual freedom. Rather, it is a form of social engineering that seeks to level down and standardize all cultures, trampling on regional and ethnic loyalties which are not determined by market or state."
-Dr. Aidan Rankin
Priests Protest Gay Blessings in Sweden
Published Sunday, November 06, 2005 by wilpuri | E-mail this post
Swedish priests reject gay church blessings
More than 400 Swedish Lutheran priests have posted an Internet message distancing themselves from an official Church decision to guarantee same-sex partners the right to religious blessings of their civil unions."We believe this decision is not in accordance with the order of communal life and marriage as revealed in the Word of God defining it as a relationship between man and woman," said a website statement.
"The Word of God does not authorise us to bless another type of relationship among couples," said the signatories, distancing themselves from the Church's new official position.
On October 27, the Lutheran Church said it would guarantee same-sex partners the right to religious blessings of their civil unions.
"The Church board has been given the task of working out a system for these homosexual partnership blessings ... The system will go into effect during 2006," said a spokeswoman.
Sweden's current law gives gay couples the same rights as married couples, but while the public commonly refers to gay unions as "marriages", they are in the eyes of the law officially called "partnerships".
The Church decision was taken at a congress by a majority of 160 delegates to 81 against, with eight abstentions.Pastor Yngve Kalin published a "priest's statement" on his website on November 1st denouncing the Church decision.
By Friday evening, 416 priests had added their names to the site in support of the statement.
While I am neither a believer or a homo-hater, I really fail to see exactly why homosexuals want to be married in a church, blessed by the representatives of a religion, that is anti-homosexual. Christianity considers homosexuality to be a sin.
I see this only as another attack on traditional western culture, and attack on the very corner stone of Western Civilization; Western Christendom. There is an assault going on, on all fronts, against traditional values, customs, traditions, beliefs and everything that can be associated with Western and European civilization, and the assault is being conducted in the name of many different things. However, the attacking party is the same without exception: the so called 'progressive circles', the modern left and all the values (or the lack thereof) associated with them.
They are striving for a splintered society, it would seem. Of course, I don't think they are doing this on purpose, I think most of them genuinly believe that the world will be a better place thanks to their actions. I think that they aren't able to see the consequences that their actions are having and will have in the future.
More than 400 Swedish Lutheran priests have posted an Internet message distancing themselves from an official Church decision to guarantee same-sex partners the right to religious blessings of their civil unions."We believe this decision is not in accordance with the order of communal life and marriage as revealed in the Word of God defining it as a relationship between man and woman," said a website statement.
"The Word of God does not authorise us to bless another type of relationship among couples," said the signatories, distancing themselves from the Church's new official position.
On October 27, the Lutheran Church said it would guarantee same-sex partners the right to religious blessings of their civil unions.
"The Church board has been given the task of working out a system for these homosexual partnership blessings ... The system will go into effect during 2006," said a spokeswoman.
Sweden's current law gives gay couples the same rights as married couples, but while the public commonly refers to gay unions as "marriages", they are in the eyes of the law officially called "partnerships".
The Church decision was taken at a congress by a majority of 160 delegates to 81 against, with eight abstentions.Pastor Yngve Kalin published a "priest's statement" on his website on November 1st denouncing the Church decision.
By Friday evening, 416 priests had added their names to the site in support of the statement.
While I am neither a believer or a homo-hater, I really fail to see exactly why homosexuals want to be married in a church, blessed by the representatives of a religion, that is anti-homosexual. Christianity considers homosexuality to be a sin.
I see this only as another attack on traditional western culture, and attack on the very corner stone of Western Civilization; Western Christendom. There is an assault going on, on all fronts, against traditional values, customs, traditions, beliefs and everything that can be associated with Western and European civilization, and the assault is being conducted in the name of many different things. However, the attacking party is the same without exception: the so called 'progressive circles', the modern left and all the values (or the lack thereof) associated with them.
They are striving for a splintered society, it would seem. Of course, I don't think they are doing this on purpose, I think most of them genuinly believe that the world will be a better place thanks to their actions. I think that they aren't able to see the consequences that their actions are having and will have in the future.
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