What happens when a legally married....? (page 2)

Pickler

Hey shirley W, just got back home, and you know what? I have remembered a young man, 30ish, very effeminate. He was whispered about as "struggling" with sexual orientation issues, that's why he wasn't an MS or elder etc etc. Because I was a teenager, and stupid, I remember thinking, ooooh, he's so old, isn't he over it by now???

Sometimes I cringe at my own ignorance back then, and I am also desperately hoping that that young man got out & found someone to love.

Living in Sydney, at least he wouldn't have had to look far!

just re read my post before pressing submit....spell check had replaced "young man" with "hung man"!!!!!. Hahahahahh

Chaserious

I think the more interesting question would be what would happen if just one spouse wanted to be a witness and the other didn't. Certainly the interested spouse wouldn't be allowed to be an unbaptized publisher or get baptized unless they left their legal spouse. So much for JWs allegedly not breaking up families.

Quendi

Well, chaserious, in the eyes of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the WTS, a same-sex couple, even if legally married, does not constitute a family. Their union has no status which has to be recognized. The couple is guilty of “gross sin” and so can have no privileges or recognition. For either spouse to get them, they would either have to divorce, if legally married, or if unmarried, lead celibate lives.

Quendi

Chaserious

Yes, I know they would say something along those lines, Quendi. I was just wondering what family they would say the child belongs to if s/he had been raised by both mothers since birth. I mean, isn't every child part of a family, even if it's a single-parent family? It seems quite obvious that whatever the semantics, they are breaking up the family. I guess they would view it no differently than a man and woman living together who had children, who were not "scripturally free" to remarry. It's probably no more than an academic question anyway. I really doubt there are many homosexual people who have taken their relationship to the point of getting legally married that covert to JW (or any fundie, anti-gay church for that matter).

QueenWitch

I would suggest that the lesbian couple either forego Christianity altogether or look for a much more liberal sect. They shouldn't have to break up their family to serve god.

00DAD

Well, hypothetically it's an interesting question. I've just got two replies:

The GB hates lesbians even more than male homosexuals. I don't know why, but I know they do. I was at an elder school where Sam Herd spent about 45 minutes railing against lesbians as the worst kind of sinners possible. It was more than a little weird. He clearly had some sort of freakish obsession with the subject.

Secondly, what Quendi said. They should have nothing to do with JWs. In fact, NO ONE should have anything to do with them.

End of discussion!

00DAD

cantleave

Ohh... I bet Sam Herd has a wonderful lesbian porn collection to be that vehement on the subject.

00DAD

cantleave, Interesting you say that. I actually was so weirded out by his obsession with the subject that I thought something similar.

Of course, being the Good-Little-Elder that I was I kept my thoughts to myself, until now that is.

The guy's a freak, clearly.

Chaserious

Ohh... I bet Sam Herd has a wonderful lesbian porn collection to be that vehement on the subject.

It is important to know one's enemies, after all...

Phizzy

This thread is even more pertinent now that the English House of Commons has voted 400 t0 175 in favour of gay marriage. maybe it will not be long before the WT has to face its homophobic bigotry.

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