Canada Passes Same Sex Marriage

[amsterdam]

cool.

so what,it still lost on EVERY SINGLE STATE BALLOT LAST YEAR?and it would lose again.sadly.

amsterdam Reviewed by amsterdam on 07-06-2005. Canada Passes Same Sex Marriage By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 47 minutes ago TORONTO - Canada's House of Commons passed landmark legislation Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, granting same-sex couples legal rights equal to those in traditional unions between a man and a woman. ADVERTISEMENT Rating: 5

[bruiser]

Those of you who disaprove of Gay Marriage for religious reasons should start coming up with better excuses.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050704/...ed_church_gays

United Church of Christ Backs Gay Marriage

ATLANTA - The United Church of Christ's rule-making body voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a resolution that endorses same-sex marriage, making it the largest Christian denomination to do so.

The vote is not binding on individual churches, but could cause some churches to leave the fold.

Roughly 80 percent of the members of the church's General Synod voted to approve the resolution. They debated for about an hour before voting.

On Sunday, a committee of about 50 United Church of Christ representatives gave nearly unanimous approval to the resolution, recommending that the General Synod approve it. It was supported by the UCC's president, John H. Thomas.

Traditionally strong in New England, the liberal denomination of 1.3 million members has long been supportive of gays and lesbians.

The committee also voted against an alternative resolution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. A small group of conservative congregations had proposed that ammendment, and suggested that approval of gay marriage could lead to the church's collapse.

The church was criticized last year for its television advertising campaign featuring a gay couple, among others, being excluded from a church. CBS and NBC rejected the 30-second ads.

In the early 1970s, the UCC became the first major Christian body to ordain an openly gay minister. Twenty years ago, it declared itself to be "open and affirming" of gays and lesbians.

The same-sex resolution was submitted by the Southern California and Nevada Conference. The resolution specified that bisexual and transgender persons merit the same support and protections as gays and lesbians.

UCC churches are autonomous, meaning the General Synod does not create policy for its more than 5,700 congregations.

No hard data exist on how many gays and lesbians are in the UCC.

The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel of Cleveland, national interim director of the UCC Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, said about 2,000 people are on the group's mailing list and about 1,000 clergy or seminarians are gay. The denomination has 10,323 ordained ministers.

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On the Net:

United Church of Christ: http://www.ucc.org

Yes there will be many who say they are of Christ but are actually antichrist...united church,is antichrist.......it's obviouse there isn't much christian reading going on between the people answering to this thread...

besides the true church of christ is the christian himself not a building or organization.....duh! we are the church the person who has christ in him....united church is a contradiction of the true christian faith...and for the individual who said I was wrong about the 5 billion people on earth believeing in god,I never said 5 billion were christians,that includes muslims sheek's hindui's,..............plus many more..........yes atheist are a very small minority.

I aint spreading hate but truth,if you agree or not..

[XTC]

Religion on a Whole, is a contradiction of God and Jesus.

[amsterdam]

besides on this site,i never hear anyone even talk of religon.almost everyone in america is religous to one degree or another and that will never change.people should get over it and move on.

[nicholasstanko]

HEY WAIT A MINUTE!

Are you guys talking about RELIGION in the POLITICS forum?!?!?!? You guys better cool it before the wrong people hears about this and shuts it down. Everyone knows that the two never have anything to do with one another so just stop it.

[nicholasstanko]

Do you really think I am dumb? out of 6 billion people on the planet,5 billion of them believe in God! atheist are the minority,just like the gay community,look don't tell me that this is good for the country!,were I am a christian with my 3 kids in public school,and we just ousted a homesexual female who goes around to all the schools teaching it's o'k to be gay,now mind you she ventured first only into the high schools,but now she is trying to come into the schools and speak will grade 8 and 6 and 4,she has a right to be gay but don't push your crap on me or my kids,also they just scrapped a book a couple of years back but now if gay marriage go's ahead throughout canada,the book will once again find it's demonic head back in our schools,the book was called it's o'k to have 2 mommys,also another book that ended up in alot of canadian schools was called edward and the prince,where it illustates a boy falling in love with a prince all done in cartoon form,it illustrates as well at the end of the book the prince and the boy come together and kiss...what the fuck?????? hey if ya want to be gay thats fine but don't push it on us.......we as parents can stop alot of it comming into the school,but once the gay marriage gets the o'k look out,every school and educational system will be drenched with homosexuality,not just educating but going further and making it a altertive life style like putting on a different pair of socks for example paul martin says this won't effect the church's or religions of our great nation,nor will people of faith be tied up in any of it,how could that be????..........for example paul says,no church will have to marry homeosexuals,butI say if the church parish or community hall,can't be rented to the homosexual receptions and gay marriage partys,if the church refuses to rent the haul,then they can be inviolation of their rights??....fucking loop holes...............it's the begining of the end.....tell me why would a human nation embrace a idea that one day could cause us to be exstinct....................... your all smoking way to much bud .....I once could keep my children from such things,but now it will be forced upon them over time..........who speaks for my kids not the gays certainly,,,,,I by no means hate gay people,infact I love them,but I do hate their sin!.............

Cool it with that stuff man. I'm not gay and i wouldnt ACTIVELY support gay rights. But you're way out of line talking about how you hate their sin. Who the fuck gave you a right to call what they do a sin? YEH YEH..."God told me so"... but whatever. Believe it or not your little rule book known as the bible was written by men and the contradictions found within it are the result of making it up as they went.

You don't want gay marriage? Then you go out and find some psychological reports authenticated by scientists and doctors giving factual evidence of damaging nervosis-induced stress due to daddy boinking daddy. Dont come here on a serious political forum talking about how God's gonna strike the gay men down. If that were true, we wouldnt have a catholic church now would we?

Now grow up and use grown up resources to argue and protest against grown up matters. Leave the guesswork faith for bedtime stories. I'll ask God if maybe He can help you learn a bit of tolerance and compassion for others. Your Sunday school teacher didn't do a very good job.

[bruiser]

hey I never said anything you just said lol,but thats o'k if the bible is full of contridictions post a few of them and I will explain them from a christian point of view....contridiction appear to those who don't understand....I hate all sin! including my own....and for the person who said that religion is a contridiction of God and jesus your absolutly right,I don't have a religion just faith..

[nicholasstanko]

hey I never said anything you just said lol,but thats o'k if the bible is full of contridictions post a few of them and I will explain them from a christian point of view....contridiction appear to those who don't understand....I hate all sin! including my own....and for the person who said that religion is a contridiction of God and jesus your absolutly right,I don't have a religion just faith..

I by no means hate gay people,infact I love them,but I do hate their sin!.............

I spent my three paragraphs based on that line. You have no right to say what gay people do is a sin. You do have a right to say that according to your beliefs what gay people do is a sin though.

And i dont really want to post some scripture because it often detracts from the main topic and we'd just argue our interpretations back and forth. Give it a rest! The bible was written by a few guys trying to consolidate power and authority. it didnt magically fall out of the sky like most would love to believe. no...just some guys sitting around in the desert with nothing better to do and buzzing off of the best hash oil imaginable.

[Stedric]

I have a question. If God is supposedly pro-life, and loves children, please explain this;

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore forty two of the children to pieces

God loves children, but apparently has no problem with sending she-bears (and of COURSE that had to be female) to make them into human confetti.

[Torog]

Yes there will be many who say they are of Christ but are actually antichrist...united church,is antichrist.......it's obviouse there isn't much christian reading going on between the people answering to this thread...

besides the true church of christ is the christian himself not a building or organization.....duh! we are the church the person who has christ in him....united church is a contradiction of the true christian faith...and for the individual who said I was wrong about the 5 billion people on earth believeing in god,I never said 5 billion were christians,that includes muslims sheek's hindui's,..............plus many more..........yes atheist are a very small minority.

I aint spreading hate but truth,if you agree or not..

Howdy bruiser,

Exactly ! You hit the nail on the head ! Jesus said that if we hew a log or split a rock,He would be there,because the Kingdom of God is within us..we don't need no fancy dang church building,in order to worship God and Christ.

I subscibe to the Church of Christ,but it ain't anything like the UCC,we're way more conservative,and we do believe that homosexuality,and therefore gay marriage,is a sin. We're so conservative,that we don't believe in musical instruments in the Church..we sing,no matter how bad it may sound..lol,without the accompanant of musical instruments.

Those congregations who do not treat homosexuality as the sin that it is,are in direct defiance of God's Word,in my opinion.

Have a good one !