Funny the way I keep seeing different versions of this story written over and over, it’s like the writers all think God will be basing his decisions on judgment day dependent on what current Pope or the Catholic church believes or is currently teaching...
Somehow I don’t think it works that way, but I don’t have personal knowledge yet, so I guess I could be wrong...
It appears, not only is the Constitution a living breathing document that was left open to change with our times, but now organized religion is going to be forced into that same sort of change too.
I Read two articles in past two days, one about Texas pastors being investigated for hate speech while preaching against homosexuality, a second in Idaho, I believe, where two ordained ministers have been told they are going to be forced to perform homosexual weddings under threat of jail time for not doing it.
Would not both of these fall into the category of Congress shall make no law against religion?
It is my view the only reason this ever became an issue was because government got involved in marriage in the first place when they jumped in to start collecting that marriage license fee... To me, Marriage is a religious ceremony, different religions have different rules, period. If the ceremony is a government officiated by a judge, it is a civil union... somehow this all became one and the same.
Did the articles say "ordained"? I looked for that word and didn't find it, I could have missed it though. There's a big difference between "ordained" and "licensed" ministers.