Happy Friday, today's question comes from a young man who listens regularly.

Hello, Pastor John.

Thanks for the podcast.

Here's the dilemma I face right now.

My wife's best friend is also a lesbian and was recently engaged to marry another woman.

My wife and I are unified in our decision that we will not be able to attend their wedding,

based on all the things that you talked about back in episode 191.

However, we have heterosexual friends who are getting married to, who are currently living

together and sleeping together before marriage.

I think we would attend this wedding without hesitation, but my question to you is this,

are we inconsistent to not attend a homosexual wedding because we do not affirm their sexual

lifestyle, yet be willing to attend a heterosexual wedding of unbelievers whose lifestyle of

premarital sex, we also cannot affirm.

Pastor John, what would you say to this couple?

It may be, or it may not be inconsistent, depending on other factors.

So let me draw out something that may be implicit in what this young man is asking and

the paths of relationship he's pursuing or not with both kinds of couples.

What I would want to be sure to say is that not attending the so-called wedding of a so-called

marriage between two men or two women is not the last word about the relationship that

you may have with these people.

In other words, it may be exactly the right thing to do, I think it generally is not to

be affirming of that kind of relationship by attending that ceremony.

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