(2013/366) Das Sete Igrejas da Ásia às Igrejas das Sete Cores do Arco-íris

1. O que há de comum entre as Igrejas abaixo?

Anglican Church of Canada

Episcopal Church of the USA

Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands

Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland

Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany

Old Catholic Church of Austria

The Danish Church in Buenos Aires

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Church of Denmark

Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau

Protestant Church of Bremen

Protestant Lutheran State Church of Brunswick

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover

North Elbian Evangelical Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg

Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia

Protestant Church of Westphalia

Protestant Church of the Palatinate

Evangelical Church in the Rhineland

Evangelical Church in Central Germany

Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck

Church of Iceland 

Protestant Church in the Netherlands

Church of Norway

Ekklesia Tou Theou (Church of God) (Philippines)

The Church of Sweden

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 

Presbyterian Church USA

Methodist Church of Great Britain 

Affirming Pentecostal Church International

Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals 

The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands 

Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches 

Unitarian Universalists

2. Todas permitem casamentos de pessoas do mesmo sexo, algumas, indistintamente, outras, permitindo que a decisão permaneça no nível da comunidade local. São, ainda, minoria, é claro - mas é uma bela minoria. Entraram para a história, caminhando avante, quando as irmãos caminham para trás...

3. Pena que não se juntem e façam campanhas internacionais. Os cristãos homofóbicos fazem tanto barulho que a gente acaba achando que todo cristão do mundo é homofóbico - e não é. Há cristãos bastante saudáveis...

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