Posted on 06/26/2015 10:50:01 AM PDT by Tzimisce
No. I’m Catholic, and my priest could have refused to marry me if he’d had a good (to the Church) reason to do so.
He also doesn’t/won’t marry atheists, two non-Catholics, or a Catholic and a non-Catholic who don’t meet the requirements.
That is the way it should be.
By tomorrow
Mosques??
And their response to that tends to be: "Well, I don't believe in sky faeries anyway," to which I respond.. "well, sport.. He believes in you. And you're going to learn just how much mere nanoseconds after you gulp your last helping of earthly oxygen."
No.
Soon. They just need one more court decision to force that.
They’ll now claim churches are a business and therefor come under some law like bakeries, florists and pizza parlors.
Not a Catholic, but it is my understanding a priest is bound to refuse to marry a couple if one or both have been previously divorced. That would imply there is some leeway in what can be commanded of a church.
Not now, maybe never. They didn’t require those groups that didn’t buy into divorce and remarriage to ‘remarry’ people. But divorce and remarriage wasn’t framed as a civil right. Interracial marriage was, and there are still a small % of groups that won’t do that and aren’t required to.
But predicting it will eventually happen is no more ridiculous than telling someone in 1985 that by 2015 every state in the union will have something called ‘gay marriage.’ It would have sounded crazy then, but here we are.
Freegards
Yours is the appropriate course of action. Churches who desire to get out of the business of authorizing marriage licenses can do so. The legal part of it is done at city hall or in Las Vegas. At the church you have a religious ceremony.
A couple will go to a traditional church and ask to marry. They will do this for one reason: to justify a law suit. They will sue and drain the resources of the church. That is the intention.
Yes, but the church is also a huge voting block, so I am not so sure that this use of force will make it very far when it come to election and contribution time.
Norway took away the equivalent of our 501(c)(3) status for my church here in Oslo. We could deduct up to $2,500/yr. But it really did not effect us, our giving actually increased. Now if Barky wants to treat churches/synagogues/mosques/covens like business and tax income and property accordingly then that is a game changer.
As a SBC Pastor I will not perform any same sex or plural marriages . Period!
Many so-called churches already perform fag marriages and are quite proud of it. Several even allow queers to pretend to be pastors. A year or so ago there were only a few states that allowed fag marriage, and now look what has happened. It is inevitable that all churches will be forced to perform queer marriage. If not, they will first lose their tax exempt status, and if they persist, those churches will be closed, and the pastors, deacons, and elders jailed. Welcome to the U.S.S.R., or the modern Queer nation.
You could have a judge perform the civil ceremony right before the religious service. That would remove the threat of lawsuits.
This is a culture war no matter what Justice Kennedy says.
....and they thought a video caused the death of the people in Benghazi.
Wait till ISIS sees this one.
I pray you’re right. Unfortunately, there are many misguided “Christians” that have been hoodwinked into thinking this is okay.
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