The Church and Homosexual Marriage

As a Christian, I think that you've pretty well summed things up. Any individual church is certainly free to set standards on what they consider valid within their communion. That does not mean that those standards should be applicable outside the communion.I find it very difficult to understand why ANY Christian church would opppose same-sex marriage as a general rule or why the vast majority of Christians are not in the forefront of the fight to see the discrimination against a whole people is ended.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Actually, the US is that way. You can only get married by first getting a civil marriage license. Despite what many say, marriage in the US is a civil function. Once you get the license you can then have the ceremony performed in a church or a state court.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I don't know whether ministers in the US have to apply for some licensing or whether they are simply grandfathered in or included by definition. But each church is open to set their own standards for marriage within their communion. For example Roman Catholics do not recognize divorces or remarriage and I believe most churches have varying degrees of restrictions on interfaith marriages.But the issue of same sex marriage does not envolve anything within the communion. For that reason, as well as the obvious discrimination prohibiting same sex marriages places on a people, I don't understand Christian groups opposing it.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You can do it on the Web these days.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion