Posted on 05/02/2015 8:12:01 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
NYC will force churches in the city to close, regardless of attendance. Once the snowball begins to roll downhill, it only gets bigger ...
“NYC will force churches in the city to close, regardless of attendance.”
I don’t know much about other churches, just Catholic...
A couple of things I would point out regarding the Cathoilc church:
#1, You can’t just walk in from the street and become a catholic. You have to have a Catholic sponsor who the Church approves of, You have to go through a training program (so to speak) and it takes months.
#2, Once you became a Catholic (or were already one) You still can’t receive the Sacraments (of which marriage is one - Funerals are too BTW) unless you are in a state of grace. Take from this that a Non-Catholic couple can’t get married in the Church, and neither can a Catholic couple if they are sleeping together.
#3, None of this has anything to do with being Gay. It has to do with being a Catholic in good standing.
I find it very difficult to see how the “state” would be in a position to force the Catholic Church to marry a gay couple.
On the flip side, churches that accept government funds (402C) I believe it is, are restricted regarding political speech if they tale the money. They would not be if they did not accept it or were denied it. It would backfire big time on any politician(s). The Church would just inform the congregation that it was sinful to vote for them. It’s too big of a voting block for the government to take that chance.
So, it won’t happen...
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Sometime in the last year I recall reading an article about “authorities”, in some city, who stopped a Christian group from having prayer meetings in their homes. Wish I could remember what city did that and by what ‘legal authority’ they were able to do it!
It especially startled me because it brought back a memory from my youth - My parents and a number of other Catholic families in the neighborhood would take turns hosting the group one night a week to say the Rosary. But - that was in better ‘times’...
If tax exempt status were ever taken away from churches, it could backfire towards the left. Without the tax-exemption threat, churches would then be able to inform their people to not vote for pro-aborts and homosexual agenda politicians.
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