[GeronL]

Those “city officials” should be in prison

[mrsmel]

Why do none these of perverts ever go to a mosque or a Muslim business and try to force them to cater to their perversion? Yes, that's a rhetorical question. I wish I knew a way to put someone up to it, but I don't know any sodomites anyway, and if I did, I already know that the cowardly perverts would never it anyway.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Coming to a Federal Government near you. :-(

[Darksheare]

Bet they won’t force Muslim clerics to perform same!

[marron]

Here’s the catch. They are probably on shaky legal grounds and rock-solid moral grounds. And rock-solid constitutional grounds.

This is what happens when your laws are no longer in harmony with natural law, with moral law, or with the constitution itself.

This is what happens when you elect lawless men into high office.

They will say that its a business and not a church. After they beat down this rampart, then they will move on to the church itself. Pastors in Canada, Germany, and Sweden have already been prosecuted for opposing homosexuality. This is not over until people awaken and start to stand up, instead of leaving these small businessmen to face bankrupting legal fights alone.

[lightman]

Just one caveat: “Marryin’ Sam” and “Marryin’ Samantha” sell a Christian ceremony in a for-profit “chapel”.

Johann Tetzel would be very pleased.

[rovenstinez]

So what if a Protestant couple man and woman go to a Catholic Priest, can he NOT do the wedding because they would need to be baptized members of his church. Why don’t pastors just do weddings for their parishners, and if the same sex people aren’t accepted into membership as parishners, then take that to the SUPREMES>

[jwalsh07]

The City Officials should be tried and incarcerated for intentionally violating the First Amendment.

[FewsOrange]

Is the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel a real church or just a business?

The website is called http://hitchingpostweddings.com which would suggest it is not actually a church, there is no mention of regular worship services.

[maine-iac7]

This is TRUE NON-separation of church and state =

and the gays are actively and deliberately seeking pastors that follow their faith -

[sten]

please explain the separation of church and state again, thx

funny how the ‘separation’ only exists when the left wants to keep the churches from saying anything

meanwhile, we’re in the exact situation that promoted the religious exodus from Britian... religious persecution

those attempting to blackmail the churches should be thrown in prison themselves

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Sounds like a return to the days of John Bunyan.

[rawcatslyentist]

Well they sure don't respect Christian religion.

Now if we can get em to read ahead one more sentence to the NOT PROHIBIT part!

[BykrBayb]

As I begin writing this, there are 24 posts. Any chance I got in before the apologists? "Sure they're morally right, but they're on shaky legal ground. If Christians want to own their own businesses, or hold down jobs, they should have to renounce their faith and practice the religion the atheists order them to practice, like everyone else." Did I get in before those arguments?

[Amendment10]

What corrupt, pro-gay activist justices don’t want constitutionally ignorant voters to know about concerning the constitutionality of gay marriage is the following.

As mentioned in related threads, pro-gay, politically correct interpretations of the 14th Amendment’s (14A) Equal Protections Clause aside, city officials are in violation of Section 1 of 14A imo. Section 1 prohibits the states from making laws and policies which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens, the 1st Amendment protected freedom of religious expression in this case.

And since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay “rights,” gay marriage in this example, the city is wrongly using constitutionally unprotected gay marriage to trump a constitutionally enumerated right.

[Gay State Conservative]

Members of the clergy who adhere to basic Biblical teachings should publicly,and officially,announce that they will no longer perform legal “marriages” for *anyone*.They should announce that from that moment on they will only “bless” a union in keeping with the teachings of their religion/denomination.The same couple,they should say,is free to consult a Justice of the Peace if they wish to be married in the eyes of he law.

[ctdonath2]

Our side is utterly failing to get the core message out : marriage is to facilitate and protect procreation, an ability which is by far the norm for heterosexuals and is utterly impossible for homosexuals. The issue of “gay marriage” is not one of equality because there isn’t equality : gays can’t procreate, and marriage exists to ensure procreating heterosexuals take full responsibility for their procreative tendencies.

If this message isn’t pushed in courts and legislatures hard, our side, culture, and nation will fail.

[RginTN]

gays are so freedom loving they use govt to force Christians to celebrate their lifestyle. I can see why Republicans/Libertarians are joining the gay marriage cause/s

[impimp]

Unless the state constitution protects religious liberty then I say the state is OK. I am OK with religious persecution by states, just not by the federal government. But this is because I reject the concept of “incorporation” which the supremes have used to gut the tenth amendment.

[impimp]

Unless the state constitution protects religious liberty then I say the state is OK. I am OK with religious persecution by states, just not by the federal government. But this is because I reject the concept of “incorporation” which the supremes have used to gut the tenth amendment.