After a long-distance love run, a couple finally decided to join hands to enter the palace of marriage.
They fantasize about beautiful scenes and are too excited to sleep.
With the solemn music, the bride in the wedding dress walked slowly through the red carpet and received the derivative of the blessing of others.
The priest officiated at the wedding to testify for their marriage.
They contacted the church early and scheduled a wedding in November.
Held in a famous Victorian church and contacted the preacher, Steven North.
（Ebenezer St John`s in Ballarat church）
(picture of church)
Everything was perfectly arranged, and there was nothing wrong with it.
A few days later, they were subpoenaed to the office and received a message that caught them off guard.
"I`m sorry, I can`t help you with the wedding."
Asked why, but because of a message on the FaceBook.
In August, Australia`s goverment said it would launch a referendum on same-sex marriage, sparking heated discussions on the FB. As a member of Australian society, the referendum is inextricably linked to everyone, and naturally there will be no silence.
While everyone is posting their position, the young couple are no exception, and the bride has also posted a link on FB to express her support, and this has become the culprit of everything.
The bride`s rejection of the church was unthinkable:
"I know that not everyone agrees with same-sex marriage. I just expressed my own position and, frankly, it doesn`t affect my relationship with my lover."
In the couple`s view, their position was their personal choice, their freedom, and their marriage had nothing to do with it, and there was no reason for the church to interfere.
However, the pastor told the media why, he said, their FB posts would have "practical consequences."
"same-sex marriage is contrary to the Bible`s position."
"if you continue to preside over your wedding, it means I support your opinion, or I don`t care what you think."
"what`s more, the church is the place where Christians perform rituals, and your view is different from the theory that Christianity supports, so you can`t agree to your wedding in church."
And what he said is not unfounded.
(the following is selected from Baidu)
The Bible is anti-homosexual, although the word "homosexuality" does not appear in the Chinese ECDC and the text, but has the same meaning (such as pro-masculine sex).
There are teachings and warnings against homosexuality in the New and Old Testament, and every time they appear, they are rebuked in a very harsh tone. In the laws of the Old Testament, people are even allowed to kill people who are gay. Blaming such things in the New Testament is shameful, in contrast to claims that the Bible does not prohibit homosexuality.
The Bible allows only one man and one woman to marry, except that God does not permit sexual relations, which are blessed by God only in the marriage of a man and a woman.
In Rome, the Bible reprimands homosexuals, covetous for each other, and is not exactly what those who support homosexuality say are forced homosexuality by one side is what the Bible opposes.
The following are some of the New and Old Testament texts on anti-homosexuality, in which the crime of obscenity with beasts is mentioned in particular.
Lex 20: 13 if a man lives with a man, as with a woman, both of them have done abominable things, and they will be put to death, and their sin will be on them. If a man has sex with a beast, he shall be put to death, and he will kill the beast. If a woman is close to the beast and has sex with it, you will kill the woman and the beast, and you will put them to death, and sin will be on them.
Thus God allows them to indulge in their shameful desires. Their women turned the use of sexual obedience into the use of reversibility, and so did men, who forsaken the use of women to comply with sex, and who wanted to fight against each other, and for which men and men did shameful things, and received in themselves the retribution which was due to them.
Religious doctrine`s disapproval of same-sex relationships has always been the strongest resistance to same-sex marriage in Western society, and many homosexuals in Christian families have also been subjected to a lot of pressure and opposition. Even encountered the situation of parental intransigence.
There was also a film devoted to this topic.
Bobby told such a sad story.
It doesn`t matter that society doesn`t understand, but even close relatives have been criticized repeatedly, giving unimaginable psychological pressure and suffering, "I don`t want to have a gay son."
This sentence was undoubtedly the last blow, causing the blink of this young life.
In today`s Australia, the referendum is in front of us, and the contradictions are even more intense.
Australian Presbyterian ministers and church observers are unequivocally opposed to same-sex marriage. In Australia, Christian bishops have posted notices calling for a referendum on say no.
Mr. Wilson of the Presbyterian Society of Australia published a blog post.
Mr. Wilson wrote:
"there are many strong voices calling for the destruction of God`s declared sanctity,
The church cannot be silent. "
And for the innocent couple, the Presbyterian said:
This is only the decision of an individual pastor, not all of it.
The couple have sent a wedding invitation to friends and family, but instead of a church, they will have to find an alternative venue, which will be officiated by the retired minister.
The couple said they would no longer attend Ebenezer St John because of Steven`s decision.
They wrote:
"We consider this decision to be absolutely shameful and a disgrace to you and to all churches, especially when we are loyal to this congregation and its members for 10 years."
"We agree with church teachings in marriage counseling, just because we agree to our own lives, and that doesn`t mean we have to put these beliefs on others."
The church`s decision not only put a lot of pressure and unease on the two families, but also the intensification of the conflict between the same-sex marriage factions.
