Ask Kevin DeYoung: should a Christian attend his gay friend/family member's wedding?
Posted by Crossway on Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Robert A. J. Gagnon, Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, had this to say following his posting of the video, "Christians should not attend a ritual celebration of an act that God finds abhorrent. The closest analogy in Scripture is Paul's injunction in 1 Cor 10 that Christians not attend events at an idol's temple, not even if they believe that the idol has no real existence, not even if the event being celebrated at the temple is something seemingly innocuous like the celebration of a birth or a job promotion. In the context... of 1 Corinthians, with its dual commands to "flee sexual immorality" and "flee idolatry," there is no way that Paul would have permitted attendance of any wedding ceremony of the incestuous man in 1 Cor 5 to his stepmother, had such an event taken place." (see here)