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To: Conscience of a Conservative

License applications ask questions about marriage and divorce for purely legal reasons. The morality of divorce and remarriage (or even marriage—since civil-marriage is not recognized by some religions) is complicated, and its ethics therefore always been seen as the responsibility of the applicants.

Your example is imaginary though, as I’m unaware of any clerks refusing for religious reasons to sign off on legal papers about divorce and remarriage. I know of no Church authorities or religions that would require them to either.

However, signing off on something VERY OBVIOUS, that religious conviction says is always and everywhere highly immoral—an “abomination” using the biblical word, has an order of magnitude difference.... The State is crushing religious freedom when it requires people to approve of homosexual unions.


44 posted on 09/27/2011 4:32:00 PM PDT by AnalogReigns ((since reality is never digital...))
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To: AnalogReigns
The State is crushing religious freedom when it requires people to approve of homosexual unions. No, the State is merely requiring that State officials perform their functions in accordance with State law. In a nation of laws, there is no room for public officials to refuse to perform their duties because of their own personal beliefs, even deeply-held (and correct) religious beliefs.
45 posted on 09/27/2011 4:44:51 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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