Sweden’s Lutheran church, the Church of Sweden, has decided to conduct gay weddings in the Nordic country from Nov. 1. “We are the first major church to do this,” said Kristina Grenholm, the church’s director of theology. The decision came after the Swedish parliament earlier this year passed legislation allowing homosexuals to legally marry, changing a previous law permitting legal unions but not formal marriage.
“For my part, the right decision was taken, but I can empathise with the many who believe this has gone too fast,” Archbishop of Sweden Anders Wejryd told a news conference.
Sweden’s Lutheran church, which split from the state in 2000 but remains the country’s largest religious community, had previously said it was open to registering same-sex unions but wanted to reserve the term matrimony for heterosexual marriages.
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“Where God builds His church there Satan builds more than”
“sin against the Holy Spirit is Forgivable unless repented”
May God forgive the priest who married the gay…..
“Maybe the next news to heard “marriage between father and daughter/son and mother”, wait for it.
Do you have a daughter or a sister? Marry them…or you are a gay?
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