Here's an interesting table from Wikipedia:
So, what stands out here? Don't we think it's pretty interesting that with one exception, all of the nations on this chart are or were part of Christendom?
This is the table for Civil Partnerships:
It seems as though the culture has taken in the teaching about the highest Christian value, and taken it seriously - even as the church itself has forgotten it completely. And I think it really has - particularly, as far as I can tell, in America.
Perhaps it's time for the church to take a long, hard, truthful look at itself, and to wonder why it's become so angry, and so unable to love.....
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So, what stands out here? Don't we think it's pretty interesting that with one exception, all of the nations on this chart are or were part of Christendom?
This is the table for Civil Partnerships:
[hide]Civil unions and
registered partnerships
Jersey
Mexico:
· COA, COL, JAL
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Slovenia
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States:
· CO, NV,
· OR, WI
Venezuela:
· Mérida
It seems as though the culture has taken in the teaching about the highest Christian value, and taken it seriously - even as the church itself has forgotten it completely. And I think it really has - particularly, as far as I can tell, in America.
Perhaps it's time for the church to take a long, hard, truthful look at itself, and to wonder why it's become so angry, and so unable to love.....
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