{"id":4751,"date":"2013-04-11T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:16:30","slug":"would-you-attend-a-same-sex-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=4751","title":{"rendered":"Would You Attend A Same-Sex Wedding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the question that Southern Baptist blogger Mark Lamprecht \u00a0(Here I Blog<\/a>) poses in a recent post,\u00a0“Accept the Invitation to Son’s Same-Sex Marriage?,”<\/a>\u00a0part of his\u00a0always thought-provoking Wednesday posts, “Applied Ethics.”<\/em> \u00a0In Mark’s hypothetical — which, sadly, will become all-too-real for many families, Christian and non-Christian alike — the invitation to the same-sex wedding comes from a son to his parents. The scenario unfolds as follows:<\/p>\n

A real dilemma came the day one of your sons confessed that he was gay. When your son told you he was gay you still loved him, but you still loved God more. So, you expressed your love for him by encouraging him not to engage in homosexual activity explaining that such temptations are not sin, but acting on them are.\u00a0Your son stayed celibate until his last year away at college. While attending his college graduation you inevitably met his boyfriend.\u00a0Then, two months later you receive a letter and a wedding invitation from your son. He was not able to tell you in person that his boyfriend was actually his fianc\u00e9e (he lives in a state where same-sex marriage is legal).\u00a0Your son invites you to his same-sex wedding and wants you to walk him down the aisle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a hypothetical would have been outlandish just ten years ago and completely unthinkable 25 years ago when I was a senior at George Washington University. Although there were members of my fraternity who eventually came out, none did before my graduation in the spring of 1988. Fast-forward a quarter century and we have been transported to a brave, new world indeed! With same-sex “marriage’s”<\/em> legality and normalization a virtual certainty <\/a>with the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Prop. 8 (expected sometime this summer), those who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman will be faced with many dilemmas, not the least of which will be receiving an invitation to attend the wedding of a family member, friend, co-worker, or college buddy.<\/p>\n

So, for those of us who have religious and\/or moral objections to same-sex “marriage,”<\/em> how will we respond when we get that first invitation? Mark posits four choices for the Christian parent who is invited to the nuptials of a gay son:<\/p>\n