Gay Marriage

“Based on polling in 2017, a majority of Americans (62%) support same-sex marriage, while 32% oppose it.” Pew

“The DC Baptist Convention has a relationship with the Southern Baptist Convention. Can that relationship continue with the DC Baptist Convention becoming ‘a convention that…does accept a church that has legally married [lesbian] copastors in terms of their own membership’?”

“ ‘That is not the case. In fact, InterVarsity doesn’t have a policy regarding employee views on civil marriage,’ stated InterVarsity on Thursday evening. ‘We do continue to hold to an orthodox view of human sexuality and Christian marriage, as you can read in our Theology of Human Sexuality Document.’”

Opinions seem to correlate with degree of regular church attendance

The American branch of the 80-million-member Anglican Communion has been suspended for allowing priests to perform same-sex marriages.

Christians should not attend a same-sex wedding — even of their own child — because it signals “moral approval” of the union, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary wrote in “We Cannot Be Silent,”

“[I]n biblical and historical context, Christians should be supporting Davis, praying for her and rallying to her cause.” Ref21

“[G]reat thinkers throughout human history—and from every political community until about the year 2000— thought it reasonable and right to view marriage as the union of husband and wife. Indeed, this view of marriage has been nearly a human universal.”

“Now that same-sex couples have the right to wed, will higher-ed institutions that condemn LGBT students still be eligible for federal funding?”

“A day is coming when all the contrivances, devices and rationalizations of men will melt before the presence of the Lord of Heaven. On that day, a day when every man will answer to Christ for his life, all five of you will in fact stand before Him. When you do, there will be no wooden bench in front of you. You will not have your robes on; you will all be entirely naked.