Would you attend a same-sex wedding ceremony? That question was posed
recently to Houston pastor Joel Osteen, and Osteen said that he would
attend, if the wedding involved friends. This came just after Osteen
indicated that he could not perform a same-sex marriage ceremony, since
he believes that homosexuality is a sin.
I recently wrote about this exchange, suggesting that Osteen’s position is morally and theologically incoherent. As I said:
This is beyond mere incoherence. It is moral and theological
nonsense. More than that, it is a massive statement of ministerial
malpractice. . . . You cannot celebrate what you say you know to be
sin. You cannot honestly say that same-sex marriage defies the law of
God, and then join in the celebration of that ceremony. Keep Reading>>>
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