Posted on 06/27/2015 8:50:04 AM PDT by madison10
Societies across the globe are engaged in conversations to redefine marriage. Media debates, election-day balloting, and governmental court rulings have provided the platform for this redefinition. We believe a biblical view of marriage involves a monogamous, covenantal relationship between a man and a woman. Jesus said, “At the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate” (Matthew 19:4-6 NIV).
Today the United States Supreme Court, in the 5-4 decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. We remind our people that while the civil law of yet another country has changed, divine truth has not changed. We will learn how this civil definition functions within the context of our constitutional and religious freedoms. Our commitment to the orthodox biblical Christian faith remains the same. We continue to call Nazarenes around the world to a life of holiness, characterized by holy love and expressed through the most rigorous and consistent lifestyle of sexual purity. We further call our people to a generosity and graciousness of spirit that extends kindness to those who do not share our belief. We pray that God will help us be examples of His truth in a world that needs to see God’s love demonstrated in word and deed more than ever.
Jerry D. Porter J. K. Warrick Eugénio R. Duarte David W. Graves David A. Busic Gustavo A. Crocker
Board of General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene
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Good for CotN
Nice to see such an unwavering statement from the Church of the Nazarene.
The church needs to prepare financially to lose its tax exempt status. That is coming next. There is no way progressives (or the Hillary Supreme Court) will allow churches to discriminate and at the same time benefit from tax breaks funded, in part, by the same people they discriminate against.
The GOPe is no help because it is trying to sabotage the one candidate who can defeat Hillary - Ted Cruz.
good.
I’ve been in the Nazarene church for a couple of years now (recovering United Methodist), and am impressed with their holiness and gentleness.
This decision has moved the goalposts. The next battle may well be lawsuits over churches and denominations which don’t perform homosexual marriage.
Years ago, gay activists used to say that they wanted rights under our secular civil laws, and didn’t want to force churches to comply with same sex marriage, and didn’t want to interfere with how churches conducted their business.
Now we will see if the activists lied to us or not, by what happens next.
Now that the goalposts have moved, and homosexual marriage will happen everywhere, will these activists be able to stand the fact that churches are out there, considering them sinful and sinners??? Will they work to silence such churches??
Isn’t it true that as of today, no mainstream religions recognize homosexual marriage? Although some have become more liberal in their view of homosexuality and homosexual people, do any mainstream denominations perform homosexual marriages????
To me, if the gay activists are truthful about what their intentions were, we will not see lawsuits against churches or church related schools over homosexual marriage.
We will see. I expect that the next battle will be lawsuits against religious denominations and their views of homosexuality. I hope I’m wrong.
Agreed. May God bless them.
This is why you don’t negotiate with the insane or terrorists.
I would like to point out the current religious affiliations of each member of the U. S. Supreme Court:
There are six Roman Catholics currently serving on the court (Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas) and three Jews (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagen).
Nary a Protestant.
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