Posted on 03/19/2013 9:51:48 AM PDT by Wanderer99
The Free Church of Scotland said the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill will allow groups promoting a belief to marry couples.
The government said the change was relevant to bodies such as humanists, who are classed as religious rather than non-religious at the moment.
A spokeswoman said the reputation of Scottish ceremonies would be protected.
The Free Church of Scotland has raised concerns about religious and civil partnership ceremonies being joined by a third category.
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May The Force be in you...
The stupid is strong with this one.
Next will be Wookies and Demons marrying.
Oh wait.........
Well played, very well played. :)
Married I pronounce you.
These are not the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered droids you were looking for...
UNDER THE LAW in the USA, only a notary license is mandatory. Religion is irelivant to the marriage service. It means NOTHING to the law.
In fact, once properly witnessed, signed, and notarized the couple is done.
This is why religious arguments are 100% dead end losers in the courts. The only way to win in the courts is to defeat the born that way behavior myth.
Just a detail, but the "Flat Earth Society" bit of erratum in this article, implying that this is a view once held by the Christian church, is a myth.
And one easily disproved. The Latin word for the Earth which was used by both the Romans and the Catholic Church from its very beginning was Orbis Terrarum, meaning "Globe of the World."
The Catholic Church never had a "Flat Earth" doctrine because 1) its not a religious matter and 2) they always knew it was round.
Jeffery Burton Russell wrote a book called "Inventing the Flat Earth" based n his historical research choing that there is no mention, even, of people believing the Earth was flat till the 19th century, at which time anti-religious writers and satirists claimed that the Medieval Church believed the Earth was flat to discredit Catholicism. Sadly, people believe 19th century propagandists (and spoofs!) despite the fact that evidence is overwhelmingly against them.
You two are tied in my mind for the best post on this thread thus far.
“The Force” is nothing new. It’s simply pantheism.
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