Danish priests maybe forced to marry homosexual couples - defying scripture
Lesbian couples form the largest proportion of the weddings, according to the report. Why?
Gay and lesbian couples have been able to marry in civil ceremonies in Denmark since 1989. Bishop of Copenhagen Peter Skov-Jakobsen, who was at the forefront of the committee that developed the same-sex marriage ritual for the Danish church, told Ritzau that he was glad to see so many taking advantage of the new law. He is glad but God is not as he openly defies scripture in the face of God.
The bishop added that many Danish priests continued to oppose same-sex church marriages. “Priests that do not wish to conduct this type of marriage can be exempted. But the law is fortunately such that if a priest exempts him or herself, the couple will be referred to another priest that will conduct the ceremony,” he said. But that will change as the State will ask bishops to resign if they do not marry homosexuals.
“It is always possible to marry in a parish church. Neither the priest nor the parish council can prevent that,” Skov-Jakobsen added.
The differences between Danish marriage rituals for homosexuals and heterosexuals are subtle – the words for ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ are exchanged for ‘partner’, for example. Priests are also advised to use a biblical text of their choice as the basis for their wedding sermon, as opposed to the traditional use of the story of creation from the book of Genesis.
We would suggest Romans 1 calling them to repent of the sin of homosexuality.
