[JoeFromSidney]

At today's usual after-Mass coffee-and-donuts session, our priest brought up a point I hadn't considered. The Supreme Court decision opens up another line of attack in the liberal's war on Christianity. If a same-sex couple approaches him and says they want to get married, if they're not Catholic he can say he doesn't perform civil weddings. He might get away with that. But if they say they are devout Catholics, the priest may not be able to argue that they're not devout Catholics if they want to commit sodomy. After all, the Church marries people who commit other sins. Why be so fussy about that one?

He remarked that there would probably be similar attacks on the Baptists, because they're strict on this too.

there are a lot of ramifications of this that haven't been fully thought through.

[Nachum]

there are a lot of ramifications of this that haven't been fully thought through.

It will work exactly the same way for othodox Jews. Orthodox and Christian clergy will probably be specifically targeted to force them into a rejection of the request to 'marry' the homosexual or lesbians.

When the clergy refuse, they homosexuals/lesbians then sue. The federal government will accuse the synagogue and or church of 'discrimination' and demand an end to the tax-exempt status of the church or synagogue.

And-

Don't think it will stop there. They will demand to go into Jewish and Christian schools and monitor curriculum to demand that children are 'taught' about 'equal rights'.

This fight is only just beginning FRiend.

[randita]

The doctrine of the Catholic church is that marriage is a sacrament and is a union between one man and one woman. What I believe will evolve is that most religious institutions will stop the practice of witnessing/validating a marriage certificate. Let the secular government legalize the union as they do now with the justice of the peace. The church conducts the religious ceremony but that has no bearing on whether or not the marriage is legal in terms of the state and/or federal government.