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Ireland’s Evangelicals Support Civil Partnerships for Gays
The Irish Evanglical Alliance released a statement earlier this month giving broad support the new Civil Partnership Bill 2009
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Other evangelical Christian groups in Ireland and the UK have been shocked by the statement. Lifesitenews.com quotes the Honorary Secretary of Aontas (formerly the Association of Irish Evangelical Churches), Rev. Paudge Mulvihill as saying the other group’s stand has caused him “profound sadness”.
Meanwhile, Irish LGBT groups are split between support for the bill that would grant legal status to gay couples for the first time in the history of the state and protesting that the bill does not go far enough, and worse, enshrines second class status for gay and lesbian couples in law.
The Irish Evangelical Alliance’s position paper makes it very clear that they see the legislation as not affecting marriage.
Most notably, however, the document states, “Evangelical Christians have no automatic right to have their views prefered to those of others. Nor do we have a duty to try and impose Biblical morality on public life by force of law.”
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CanuckJacq
January 1, 2010 at 5:56 am
Very true! In Ireland, we’ve seen a resurgence in church attendance due to the influx of Eastern Europeans here, but they will gradually assimilate and start ignoring the church too, I would think.
Stan James
January 1, 2010 at 3:18 am
Just think – in very catholic Ireland – the country that evangelized Catholicism in Europe for the most part, gays are going to get most of the rights of marriage.
Yes it may not be quite the same. But progress is progress. The real value is that gays will come out, and be recognized by so many people they know as decent hardworkign people who happen to be gay.
And in the end, the people will see the homophobia of the monstrosity called the church of rome, and it will continue on its path to oblivion in the civilized world.
Glory to God – in Western Europe, very heavily Catholic except for Scandanavia, only 15% of the people go to church regularly. And most of them are widows, / widowers looking for a mate.
And nwo the church can be replaced with online dating.
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