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I know there are some churches and branches of both allow same-sex marriage, but what about sex before marriage? Apparently the American National Catholic Church diverges from Roman Catholics belief in the sexual realm according to Wikipedia and I was wondering if there was anything similar? I do know that at some point the Pope, or some Catholic figure, allowed people to have sex with prostitutes. It's not allowed now, but I'm sure there's one that does allow that.
Side note: YouTuber Schaffarillas says he's been to Greek Orthodox churches which didn't push anyone away even if they were gay and talks about other followers who are into the same sex. Do Greek Orthodox churches allow same sex marriages? Quite frankly after some research, it begins to feel like a rabbithole of information and constantly going to new links on Wikipedia pages and it's what started me on this path.
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For the most part Christian denominations don't allow sex before marriage. Yet in many denominations nobody really cares either, to be honest. Same sex marriages are not allowed in catholic or orthodox churches, there are some mainline protestant churches which do. Like the (most) Lutherans or Methodists. Regardless of this many churches do welcome all people. Even if you say being homosexual or living in a homosexual relationship is a sin, you would simply be one more sinner, as we all are.
And in my (German evangelic-lutheran) church we also have a slightly different approach to sexuality. We don't say that sex before marriage is necessarily a sin. We say that irresponsible sex is a sin. Within a loving, caring and attentive relationship responsible sex is fine. This relationship should preferably be married, but does not need to. Irresponsible sex is a sin, regardless if this sex is in- or outside of marriage.
Sex with prostitutes would not fall in the responsible sex category though...
There are no branches of Catholicism. You submit or you don't.
Unitarian.
Orthodox are super traditional when it comes to sex, sorry to tell you. We try not to be judgey, but we also know what’s not allowed for ourselves.
There is no such thing as "National Catholic" or whatever the heck.
Saying you are a Catholic that is not in communion with Rome, is like saying you are a lawyer that is not in communion with the state bar.
You can call yourself a Catholic but you aren't one if you are not in communion with Rome.