{"id":1497655,"date":"2022-05-31T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497655"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:32:37","slug":"churches-that-bless-gay-marriage-victimize-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/churches-that-bless-gay-marriage-victimize-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches That Bless Gay Marriage Victimize Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchurches-that-bless-gay-marriage-victimize-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/33861273511_b7947c715e_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Church of Scotland formally removed itself from the Christian faith last Monday when its authorities voted to permit same-sex unions. They join numerous mainline U.S. denominations in their denouncement of biblical teaching including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/largest-presbyterian-denomination-in-the-us-approves-same-sex-marriage\/50247.htm\">Presbyterian Church USA<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/who-we-are\/lgbtq\/\">Episcopal Church<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucc.org\/what-we-do\/justice-local-church-ministries\/justice\/health-and-wholeness-advocacy-ministries\/lgbt\/lgbt_issues_marriage-equality_index\/#Marriage_Equality_and_the_UCC\">United Church of Christ<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/Faith\/Faith-and-Society\/Social-Statements\/Human-Sexuality\">Evangelical Lutheran Church of America<\/a>, each of which bless gay marriage in the name of Jesus, against his express commands.<\/p>\n<p>Why are these massive denominations ignoring the annals of church antiquity, a history in which the concept of same-sex marriage has never been conceived, let alone affirmed? The answer, as usual, is that empathy for the feels of adults has overridden tradition, scripture, and natural law. Case in point, one Scottish minister <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/scotland\/church-of-scotland-votes-to-allow-same-sex-marriage-in-landmark-move-1646762\">prattled<\/a> about the vote: \u201cI\u2019ve seen the heartbreak of those in same-sex relationships in our congregations who are unable to marry in their home church, devout Christians though they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Empathy and compassion are required when relating to those who experience same-sex attraction. Our struggling brothers and sisters absolutely deserve our love and friendship. But woe to church leaders who believe themselves to be more tolerant and loving than the God who took three nails for them. Jesus gave no wiggle room when he described a very gendered definition of marriage in Matthew 19:4-5; \u201ca <em>man<\/em> leaves his <em>father<\/em> and <em>mother<\/em> and is united to his <em>wife<\/em>,\u201d conspicuously stating that God \u201cmade them <em>male<\/em> and <em>female<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These denominations are forced to twist and torture the plain <a href=\"http:\/\/robgagnon.net\/articles\/homosexScripReallySays.doc.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2EkPDHLehrl7NTmY4N7LGhj3mVxfBLD_0HmynElAtBu1GyoTF1pLa3C3w\">teachings of Christ and the church fathers<\/a>. Paul and other early church leaders were unambiguous about the need for Christians to \u201cflee <em>porneo<\/em>,\u201d a Greek term that refers to all sex, no matter with whom that sex is enjoyed, outside of male-female marriage. You\u2019ll find unquestionably clear condemnations of homosexual behavior in the Bible\u2019s Romans 1, 1 Cor 5:9-11, Eph 5:5, 1 Tim 1:9-10, Heb. 13:4, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:14-15, 1 Cor 6:9-10.<\/p>\n<p>But these tolerant, accepting ministers aren\u2019t letting pesky tradition nor consistent scripture stop them from basking in the rainbow limelight. Nor will they let natural law\u2014the moral <em>ought<\/em> derived from nature\u2014stand in their way. They seem to be following the woke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/Romans-road-salvation.html\">Roman Road<\/a> by \u201csuppressing the truth\u201d about \u201cwhat has been made.\u201d Most importantly, what has only ever \u201cbeen made\u201d has been so via male-female unions: children.<\/p>\n<p>Children are the ultimate victims of the theological battle the progressive church is waging against itself. A church that pretends same-sex unions are equal to biblical marriage condemns children to a motherless or fatherless existence. These Christian leaders are trading the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatwouldyousay.org\/do-childrens-rights-override-parental-rights\/\">rights<\/a>, longings, needs, and well-being of children for self-aggrandizement. In doing so, they do great harm to \u201cthe least of these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following is a scenario some rainbow-flag-flying pastors will undoubtedly face in the coming years. What would Pastor Inclusive say to <a href=\"https:\/\/thembeforeus.com\/an-angry-teen-with-two-moms-gets-advice-from-a-man-whos-been-there\/\">this 15-year old boy<\/a> if he were a member of their church: \u201cI have two lesbian parents\u2026I like my grandparents, there (sic) more like my parents to me but it\u2019s not the same as everyone else. I\u2019m so jealous of my friends\u2026 I just wish I could know my dad and make the depression I have every day go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biblically, this boy is commanded to honor his mother <em>and<\/em> father, except, Pastor Inclusive chose to officiate the wedding of his two moms, making it impossible for him to obey God\u2019s command. Pastor Inclusive interprets scripture in a way that dismisses this father-hungry teen\u2019s deepest longings and fundamental right to be known and loved by his father.<\/p>\n<p>What say you, Pastor Inclusive? Do you believe this boy is required to sacrifice his need for a father so you can validate the feelings of adults in your congregation?<\/p>\n<p>If Pastor Inclusive were facing biblical and natural law reality, the painful father\/mother hunger suffered by <a href=\"https:\/\/thembeforeus.com\/tag\/lgbt-parents\/\">kids of same-sex parents<\/a> would demolish his \u201cinclusive and affirming\u201d fantasies that gay marriage is equal to biblical marriage. Pastor Inclusive might have to finally admit that the opinions of his progressive friends matter more to him than God\u2019s infallible word and the fundamental rights of this suffering boy.<\/p>\n<p>Christians must resist the \u201cfine sounding arguments\u201d (Colossians 2:4) urging the church to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/scotland\/church-of-scotland-votes-to-allow-same-sex-marriage-in-landmark-move-1646762\">become relevant to their communities<\/a>\u201d via reinterpreting long-settled doctrine on sex and marriage. When in doubt, here\u2019s a cheat sheet for God\u2019s people; in God\u2019s economy, the weak never sacrifice for the strong. Not once, ever. Rather, it is the strong who must sacrifice on behalf of the weak and needy.<\/p>\n<p>You might recall one such costly sacrifice made for you by a man named Jesus. Out of love, He used his strength to endure unimaginable suffering and make the ultimate sacrifice for you and us because we are weak, and we needed it. Then He told us to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive churches and denominations who compromise on God\u2019s marriage laws and sexuality either don\u2019t care, or have forgotten how costly scriptural commands are, whether it\u2019s giving to God\u2019s people who are in need, blessing those who curse us, or caring for orphans and widows in distress. Yet when God commands us to do <em>or not do <\/em>something, it\u2019s often an affront to our immediate comfort and human desires. We naturally balk at the high price of spirit-led living, but in the long run God\u2019s directives always result in relational, physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness, especially for the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this high short-term price, long-term gain truer than living under God\u2019s design for sex only within marriage. Mastering sexual desire is costly and challenging. But when our sexual urges become god, we force children to sacrifice on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Abstaining from premarital sex is difficult, but too often it results in children born to unmarried parents and therefore unstable households. Married couples find they must either work through difficulties such as communication impasses, financial stressors, and unrealistic expectations of the marital relationship, or subject their children to split-homes expectations, split-home instability, and split-home lives.<\/p>\n<p>Adults who order a family around their same-sex attraction so they can \u201chave it all\u201d force their child to sacrifice a dual-sex upbringing. They \u201chave it all\u201d by choosing a motherless or fatherless life for their children. For their <em>all, <\/em>children get <em>half<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What these loving, tolerant, and progressive denominations have done by validating same-sex unions is put the onus on children to sacrifice for adults. They insist the least of these give up their right to be known and loved by the two people responsible for their existence, the complementary <a href=\"https:\/\/thembeforeus.com\/gender-matters-2\/\">mothering and fathering<\/a> that maximizes child development, and an in-home picture of God\u2019s devotion to his own bride, the church.<\/p>\n<p>In the parent-child relationship, someone\u2019s going to have to make the sacrifice. Should it be the adults or the children? When you abide by God\u2019s design, the answer is always the adults, whether they be straight or gay, single or married.<\/p>\n<p>No adult gets a pass. All adults must defer to the well-being of children in their sexual choices. Observing God\u2019s commandments is costly, but submitting our sexual decisions to the authority of Christ results in relational, physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness for children.<\/p>\n<p>Many legitimate disagreements exist between Christians, but sex and marriage is not one of them. Redefining marriage, in both the Christian and cultural context, <a href=\"https:\/\/thembeforeus.com\/marriage-married-parenthood-global-survey-gay-marriage-weakens-childrens-rights\/\">redefines parenthood<\/a> by way of making mothers and fathers optional in the life of a child. And that\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As Christians, we are unequivocally commanded to protect the fatherless, not create them. The Church of Scotland\u2019s decision will do exactly that.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Katy Faust and Stacy Manning are co-authors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1642935964\">&#8220;Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children\u2019s Rights Movement\u201d<\/a> and are currently writing \u201cHow to Raise Conservative Kids in a Woke City.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland formally removed itself from the Christian faith last Monday when its authorities voted to permit same-sex unions. 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