Conservative churches confront new reality on gay marriage

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | June 28, 2015 | Rachel Zoll

[LouAvul]

This should not force a church to perform a ceremony of Holy Matrimony against their will.

And one would not have thought a Christian baker should have been forced to bake a faggot cake, but one would have been wrong.

I would fear that fags might demand a conservative preacher to perform a ceremony, then, when the preacher refuses, said fags take it to scotus. I'd hate to guess what the scotus pimps would say about it.

[The Great RJ]

Gee how many gay marriages will be performed in mosques and will any gay activists have a problem if that number is zero?

[HarleyLady27]

I have a question:

I haven’t heard anything about the Aryan Nation and their thoughts, are they still around???

I remember in the late 80’s in Denver, they came in a large group stooling down Leetdale road, something to do with the kids at George Washington High School, and you couldn’t see anything but skin heads for a week....

[Fightin Whitey]

The black churches will roll over just like they did on everything else. The Pastors stay in power by keeping their congregations hooked on entertainment and prosperity preaching.

[RushingWater]

This is from the majority opinion[PDF link], Page 27:

Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations andpersons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to theirlives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations tocontinue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons. In turn, those who believe allowing same-sex marriage is proper or indeed essential, whether as a matter of religious conviction or secular belief, may engage those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate. The Constitution, however, does not permit the State to bar same-sex couples from marriage on thesame terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex.

[hinckley buzzard]

Tax exemption is in the gun sights of the Left-wingers, the next target in their war on Christianity. They as much as said so in their argument. Conservative faithful churches will need to consider that at a certain time in the not so distant future, their donors will no longer have charitable write offs and their revenues will be taxed in turn.

Obama has called homosexual marriage a "civil right" which sets the table for lawsuits under the Civil Rights Act, from which the churches' nonprofit religious status will not protect them.

[Graybeard58]

Churches will marry people and place it in the books. The gov’t, state requirements will be ignored as they should have been back in the 1860’s. Get gov’t out of marriage business, we don’t need their blessing.

And if you want to file a joint return with the I.R.S., you're S.O.L.

Not agreeing with that, it's just a fact.

[fwdude]

Then, a next step is for a conservative president to refuse to renew the Civil Rights Act, which comes up for renewal periodically.

Regardless, no mere policy of a church is going to stop a fascist government from doing whatever it whats. That’s a fool’s errand.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you for the link and quote.

It will be interesting to see if there will be “religious liberty” or if there will be The State.