Over the weekend, the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland voted in favour of same sex marriage at a national synod in Zurich, according to RTS.
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is part of an offshoot of Catholicism that rejects papal infallibility. The church has around 12,000 adherents mainly in Basel, Aargau, Solothun, Zurich, Bern, Geneva and Lausanne.
The church has been considering same sex marriage since 2000 and had already come up with blessings for the ceremony. Saturday’s vote was a final formal step.
From a theological perspective, marriages between two men or two women will be conducted in the same manner as heterosexual marriages, said the church.
According to Daniel Konrad, a priest and spokes person, the church wants to be connected to the realities of society.
The church also allows women priests. This means a woman will soon be able marry two women.
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Geo says
SHAME ON THOSE CHURCHES THAT DOES NOT REPRESENT GOD, but claim they do. This church does not have anything in common with God or the Bible, these specific organizations are what Jesus called false prophets. Just because you, humans, agree with what they did, does not mean God agrees and that’s the christian way, the christian way and lifestyle is very clear on this matter and expresses itself in the BIBLE, which is exactly this: MARRIAGE IS FOR A MAN AND A WOMAN,THAT’S IT. ” The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. ” – Paul , The Apostle of Jesus ( Romans chapter 1, from 18 to 32 .
charles moore says
the catholic christian church is not CHRISTIAN, IS JUST A GROUP OF TWISTED PEOPLE. IS AN ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD ALMIGHTY. MABYE THEY HAVE NEVER READ THEIR BIBLE
V says
Shut up and go work on sunday!
Adrian says
Not a single Christian church is actually truly “Christian”. No church supports rape, slavery, incest and pedophilia, despite the Bible condoning, supporting and encouraging all these things.
MUHAMMAD ZAKARIA MUGHAL says
MUSLIMS N CHRISTIANS HOLLY BROTHERS, PLZ WE HAVE WORSHIPPED SPIRITUALLY POWERFUL NO SEX RAP