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Today's Picture: Church of Sweden Embraces Gay Marriage

October 26, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

 

(AP Photo/Scanpix, Staffan Claesson)

Delegates of Sweden's Lutheran Church vote to allow church-sanctioned gay marriages at its annual meeting last week. Sweden legalized gay marriage five months ago. Roughly 3 in 4 Swedes are members of the Lutheran Church, which until 2000 was Sweden's state church, according to AFP.

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Throw out the Bible, throw out the Lutheran confessions. A meaningless and irrelevant Church that stands for nothing and falls for everything. As a Confessional Lutheran how I wish these organizations that call themselves "Lutheran" would change their name.

Robert Stewart 8:50AM December 02, 2010

i'm so impressed holy spirit directed my to search for your church on net. i didn't know that i can see a church that holy spirit is in the church in sweden. i thank God almight for your church. and holy spirit told me that on sunday you should pray for you country.

Yours faithfully

pastor faji

Nigeria

pastor faji johnson 6:47PM November 24, 2009

Just another way God is telling all Christian to join the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation the churches it created is obviously no longer God's answer to anything. However, Christ has never departed the Church of Rome as He has so obviously left the Lutheran Church.

Charlie Noel of MN 12:11AM November 02, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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