In article <1174263981.861981.219...@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net> wrote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802548/posts

Swedish bishops say yes to gay church weddings

The Local ^ | 16th March 2007 | TT/The Local

Posted on 03/17/2007 4:43:06 PM PDT by crazedsocialist

The Church of Sweden's leaders have said that they are willing to
allow gay people to marry in church on the same basis as heterosexual
couples

Good for Sweden!
--
John #1782

"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."

- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.

On Mar 18, 4:26 pm, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802548/posts

Swedish bishops say yes to gay church weddings

The Local ^ | 16th March 2007 | TT/The Local

Posted on 03/17/2007 4:43:06 PM PDT by crazedsocialist

The Church of Sweden's leaders have said that they are willing to
allow gay people to marry in church on the same basis as heterosexual
couples, although bishops are unsure whether to call the unions
marriage.

"We are prepared to carry out partnerships for homosexuals that have
the force of law," said Bishop Claes-Bertil Ytterberg of the church's
V=E4ster=E5s diocese.

Ytterberg said the decision will make the church the first major
denomination in the world to allow full gay church marriage in
practice. However, the United Church of Canada, the second largest
Canadian denomination, already carries out gay marriages.

An official government report proposing changes to marriage laws is to
be presented next week. The report is expected to call for all
couples, gay or straight, to be given equal marriage rights.

Under the system proposed in the report, churches would retain the
right to perform marriages but each individual priest would be forced
to seek a marriage licence independently. Today's move means that the
church is accepting the proposals.

Gay couples can currently have civil partnerships blessed in church,
but the partnerships' legal force is provided by civil ceremonies.

The question of gay marriage is controversial in the Church of Sweden,
a Lutheran church. But Claes-Bertil Ytterberg, speaking for the
church's governing body, said it was important that the church takes a
clear line.

"It is important that the Church of Sweden can be ecumenically weighty
by being one step ahead and showing potential pathways. We are first
in this context," he said.

Ytterberg said, however, that the church will not use the term
'marriage' ('=E4ktenskap' in Swedish) to describe the unions, keeping it
reserved for unions between a man and a woman.

"The word 'marriage' is so closely linked by tradition to the
relationship between a man and a woman," he said. He said he would
ideally like the marriage laws to be renamed 'cohabitation laws'.

"I admit that this is not a simple message to communicate," he said.

The publication of the official report will be followed by a period of
consultation with affected groups before a bill is drawn up and
presented to parliament.

More evidence of scandanavian degeneracy.
And another landmark on the road to their societal suicide.
They might even deserve extinction.