The Synod of South Africa's Dutch Reformed church will be asked to give the green light to stable gay relationships and out and proud Church ministers.
The church's Western Cape branch decided to send the controversial proposal, compiled by 26 members, to the Dutch Reformed Church's General Synod with a request to supply clear guidelines on the subject.
A Church spokesman says that although this is an incredibly devisive issue in the church, the Synod is requested to handle the matter in a sober and Biblical manner.
The proposal requests that the synod keep its 2007 policy of marriage only being between one man and one woman but that the Synod also accept that there can be a permanent unique relationship between two people of the same sex.
The Synod is requested to investigate how same sex relationships can comply with Christian moral and ethical requirements.
In the new proposal the Synod is also asked to drop its previous decision on allowing gay ministers as long as they remain celibate and to allow gay ministers regardless of sexual activity.
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Does the bible not say that any marriage to a virgin is regarded as null and void, and the woman executed? It's hypocritical to follow certain laws of the bible, but others not.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21
New International Version (NIV)
Marriage Violations
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
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