“Four Instead of Two”: German Protestant Church Defends Pastor Who Blessed Polyamorous Male Union
The Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz (EKBO) has expressed “shock” at public criticism of one of its ministers who blessed a polyamorous union between four men during a church-sponsored “pop-up” wedding fair.
Pastor Lena Müller, a self-styled pro-LGBT cleric, posted a photograph of the ceremony on Instagram, writing: “Four young men said ‘yes’ to each other, celebrated love with us and placed themselves under Gd’s colourful blessing.”* The post, later deleted following outrage on social media, provoked both ridicule and concern—particularly from Christians warning that the boundaries of “inclusion” have now entirely displaced moral truth.
Defending Müller, the EKBO issued a statement declaring: “We are appalled by the hate waged against her. We stand with them and condemn these attacks to the utmost. We stand with those who are experiencing hostility.” The statement notably offered no reference to divine law or the biblical definition of marriage, focusing instead on emotional solidarity and the vocabulary of social activism.
In an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Müller doubled down on her stance, saying: “You could see straight away that there was a lot of love between them. That’s why the team quickly agreed: What could God have against there now being four instead of two?” Such words, striking in their theological naïveté, expose the modernist premise that human affection can substitute for divine commandment—and that the created order itself may be redefined by feeling.
The Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), to which the EKBO belongs, later clarified that the ceremony had “no legal standing,” as German law recognises marriage only between two individuals. Yet the symbolic act reflects the inevitable trajectory of a church that long ago divorced itself from Scripture and tradition. The Lutheran state churches of Germany, already at the forefront of same-sex blessings and gender-neutral liturgies, now appear to be sanctioning polyamory under the banner of inclusion.
This development comes at a time when the German Catholic “Synodal Weg” has been advancing parallel proposals to bless same-sex couples and to “re-evaluate” Catholic sexual morality. Several German dioceses, including Limburg and Cologne, have already held public blessing ceremonies for same-sex unions in defiance of the Vatican. The parallel between Müller’s act and the ambitions of certain German prelates is striking—and deeply alarming. Should the Catholic Church in Germany persist down this road, it would risk replicating precisely the moral and doctrinal collapse now seen in Lutheranism, tearing the Church into open schism.
Pope Francis and the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith have repeatedly warned that the German Synodal Way lacks authority to alter doctrine. Yet these admonitions have largely been ignored. The incident in Berlin thus stands not merely as a Protestant scandal, but as a cautionary mirror to German Catholicism itself: a glimpse of what happens when ecclesiastical institutions exchange obedience to God’s Word for accommodation with the world.
Under German law, bigamy remains illegal, though certain courts have tolerated polygamous arrangements among Muslim immigrants already married abroad. The EKBO’s symbolic approval of a four-man “union” blurs even those civil boundaries, substituting ideological performance for moral consistency.
Scripture, however, remains unequivocal. “Male and female He created them… Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh” (Gen. 1:27; 2:24). Marriage between one man and one woman is not merely a cultural convention but a reflection of divine wisdom—a sacramental image of Christ’s indissoluble covenant with His Church (Eph. 5:31–32). When this covenantal order is profaned, the family—foundation of both Church and nation—crumbles.
Germany’s spiritual and cultural decline is inseparable from its moral one. The same country that once gave the world St. Boniface, St. Hildegard, and the theological genius of the medieval universities now witnesses its churches blessing immorality in God’s name. True patriotism, like true faith, requires fidelity to eternal truths. To defend the natural family is not bigotry but love—for God, for the human person, and for the nation that depends on virtue for its survival.
The “fourfold blessing” offered by Pastor Müller thus stands as a tragic parable of Western apostasy: a church without doctrine, a faith without discipline, and a civilisation without roots. The remedy lies not in further experimentation, but in repentance and return—to Christ, to Scripture, and to the moral law that alone can heal both Church and nation.
¹ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, interview with Lena Müller, November 2025.
² Statement of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz, November 2025.
³ German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) §1306; see Bundesministerium der Justiz, “Verbot der Doppelehe und Mehrfachehe.”
⁴ Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) clarification to Idea.de, November 2025.
⁵ Holy Bible, Genesis 1:27; 2:24; Ephesians 5:31–32.
⁶ “Der Synodale Weg – Abschlussdokumente,” Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, March 2023.
⁷ Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Letter to the Bishops of Germany concerning the Synodal Way, January 2023.
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