Gay marriage- sign petition?

[MarvellousYou]

I've received an email from our church leader tonight asking us all (members of our church) to sign an e-petition against gay marriage. I just wondered what people's thoughts were as I feel uneasy and can't quite figure why.

My initial thought is that I have never been asked to act about anything before even when there is so much our church could get involved in that would have a positive effect for those in our community, UK , World etc.

I'm having doubts about my church family anyway, mainly to do with their intolerance of anything that conflicts with the bible but not on issues such as poverty, abuse, homelessness etc

Is this making sense to anyone?

It makes sense to me that you would worry about it.
Be true to yourself.

Thanks, I know I won't sign it but I know DH will x

That is not easy. But you are right to focus on what you can do in a positive way.
If we all concentrated more on what we have in common and less on what divides us, a lot of good things could come from the energy that is currently used for conflict.
This is a comment on society.. not on you and your DH

Equality for all mean for all, the Church should focus on getting it's own house in order, before it acts with hate.

What could signing it mean for you and DH? nothing

What could signing it do for other people? stop them taking part in a ceremony you have gone through, and probably means a lot to you both.

Yes, this is making sense

There are a great many christian churches where issues such as poverty, abuse, homelessness etc are much more important and the leadership is in favour of equality. It might be time to look for a place to worship which is more in line with where you are personally, or God may be calling you to challenge the leadership of your current church and help nudge it towards a more tollerant attitude.

I'm a Christian myself but do not believe there is anything sinful about homosexuality and am in favour of gay marriage. What I don't understand is why those members of the church who do believe homosexual behaviour is sinful are so focused on excluding this particular category of sinners from specific rituals but do nothing to challenge the church members in good standing who are regularly selfish, gossipy, jealous, gluttonous or any other of a myriad of ways in which we all fall short of perfection.

Did your church leader by any chance forget to use "BCC" in writing to church members, or could you reply to all? If you could, I personally would be tempted to compose a reply to all the congregation which suggested that unless we as a church start campaigning equally against every sin mentioned in the bible, then it is perhaps better to follow Jesus' words of "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" and stop worrying about this particular issue.

Horrible.

It will be interesting to see how long the government will allow this blatant discrimination to continue.

i wouldn't sign it and i hope my husband wouldn't either. hasn't the christian community got better things to do?