Nashville, TN – Last month, former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara Bush attended the Maine wedding of a couple who were longtime family friends. Coincidentally, that couple happened to be two women. At the wedding, the former President signed the couple’s marriage certificate as an official witness. While Bush may not have thought twice about the wedding, the president of the Southern Baptists Theological Seminary claims that by attending the wedding, the Bushes have now become same-sex advocates, according to blogger Joe.My.God.

Dr. R. Albert Mohler posted about the event on his website on Tuesday, claiming that anyone who witnesses a wedding between a same-sex couple is supporting their union.

“Attendance at a wedding is not a neutral act,” he wrote on his website, albertmohler.com. “The history and context of the wedding ceremony identify all those present as agreeing to the rightness of the marriage and acting as witnesses to the exchange of vows. This is why the venerable language of The Book of Common Prayer, used in the overwhelming majority of Christian weddings, calls upon anyone with knowledge that the proposed union is invalid to speak, ‘or forever hold his peace.’ Anyone remaining silent at that point is affirming the rightness and validity of the marriage, and all who are preent are counted as both witnesses and those who celebrate the union.”