1 million+ South Korean Christians rally against homosexual ‘marriage’ at massive protest

Nov 2, 2024 by Dave Doveton

By Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews.

On Sunday afternoon, October 27, as many as 1.1 million South Korean Christians participated in a massive rally in Seoul to express their opposition to homosexual “marriage,” new pro-LGBT legislation, and a supreme court decision conferring some spousal legal rights on homosexuals.

Aerial photos show a staggering crowd of people packing Seoul Plaza, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul Station, and Yeouido, which the Korea Herald described as “one of the largest religious gatherings in the country’s history.” The rally was organized by a number of Christian groups, including the Council of Presbyterian Churches and the United Christian Churches of Korea.

According to the Korea Herald: “The rally, held in the form of a church service, was against the legalization of [so-called] same-sex marriage and the passage of what participants have claimed is an ‘unjust law’ — a legally binding ordinance that would ban [purported] discrimination against an individual based on one’s gender, religion, age, race, academic background or sexual orientation. Different versions of the antidiscrimination ordinance have been proposed since 2011, but none have passed due to fierce opposition, mostly from among the conservative bloc and Christian community.”

Condemning the LGBT legislation as “against the law of nature and order in which the world was created” and an attack on freedom of conscience and religion, the committee of Christian groups passed out lists of 100 prayer suggestions at the rally; one read: “Let the people discern how dangerous and totalitarian the fantasy of achieving equality by everyone being the same—instead of all being equal before God—is. So that such antihuman law that depresses freedom of the most people would not be passed.” Kim Jeong-hee, a spokesman for the organizing committee, also stated that the recent court verdict granting state benefits to homosexuals was unconstitutional because homosexual “marriage” is not recognized in South Korea.

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