[messierhunter]

The location in question was not a church sanctuary.

Not all churches worship inside a sanctuary, and even some of the ones that do hold other land around the sanctuary for other purposes. My old church had several school buildings, a prayer house, and a temporary housing complex all on their property. Only one building was a sanctuary, the rest are routinely used for public events (and even the sanctuary is used for profit events from time to time). By the precedent set here, they'd have to allow gay couples to wed on their property or lose their property's tax exempt status, and maybe one day more than that.

[seprgs]

I think that when churches rent out their property like any other business, then they should be treated like any other business ... subject to the non-discrimination laws of the city-county-state where they are. It seems like wanting to have your cake and eat it too to say “We want to rent out property like the hotels and rental management companies, but we don’t want to be subject to the same laws they are subject to because we are a religious body.” My church does not act like a business, it acts like a church, so we don’t have to worry about this.