Some “couples” will go to a Catholic church and ask to be “married”. They will be rejected. They will sue. It will be well planned. It will drain the resources of the church. That is the intention.
Whoa...the Church is unexpectedly vocal and strong and showing more leadership than I would have predicted. Prayers really are answered.
Wise decision.
PLacemark
Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1880
It was always a danger in the modern era.
Freegards
We may survive the persecution a little longer in the United States than those in Europe and Canada, but maybe not much. They don’t care about our conscience on the HHS mandate. I don’t think gay marriage is as much about marriage as it is about making everyone, including people of faith, stop criticizing their behavior. They think that will ease their consciences, but it won’t.