In a judgment handed down on Friday, the court found that it was unfair to exclude members of the church from the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms that the church offers.Dutch Reformed Church maintains decision not to recognise same sex marriages is not unfairly discriminatory
In 2015, the church took a decision to allow individual church councils to recognise same-sex marriages, and also scrapped a rule that gay ministers of the church had to be celibate. A year later, in 2016, the church adopted a new policy, going back on the 2015 decision outlawing the acceptance of same-sex unions.
Reverend Laurie Gaum, his father Dr Frits Gaum and eight other members of the Dutch Reformed Church launched a high court application to have the 2016 decision set aside and declared unconstitutional.
AlexMitchley They are going to hell of fire with same sex marriage, says the word of God Almighty!!
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AlexMitchley In this country we legalize everything,from abortions,dagga,same sex marriage,next will be prostitution
AlexMitchley So, court supercedes Christianity and the Bible? Are they going to look into other religions on this same issue? What does Islam say about same sex marriages? There should be a separation of church and state. State cannot change religious tenets.
AlexMitchley I don't believe the state should interfere in religious beliefs (however strange they may seem to others) where they do not cause harm to the individual or others, and where the individual can exercise his/her constitutional rights freely outside that religion
AlexMitchley A win for same sex marriage, this is yet another reason why me and so many other people stopped going to church.. atheist
AlexMitchley Bloody bigots.
AlexMitchley Same sex is a crime
AlexMitchley Dr Gaum and his son will go down in history as using the judicial system to force a minority issue on the majority of the church and ridiculing the Bible's directive on this matter. Gaum and co may have won the battle but God's truth on marriage cannot be denied. NG_Kerk
AlexMitchley Yawn! 🙄 The church should be able to make up their own shit as they go along. The LGBTQWTF's who are crazy and credulous enough to willingly join this superstitious book club must face an uphill in perpetuity like the rest of them. You can't reform stupidity anyway.
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