Granting your hypothetical of exclusion of church-only marriages, any marriage not conducted by an agency of the state still may be recognized through common law indicia of marriage. So while it would be tedious to not have a blanket presumption in place, specific cases already in court for other reasons (child custody, etc) would still be able to establish common law marriage.
The point is O would bar folks from obtaining civil marriage if they undertook marriage within the Catholic church.
“You can have your marraige, but the state refuses to marry you because your church discriminates”.
Nowhere in my comment did I state that the church needs to accept their sin, nor preach against it.
I am always amazed when my fellow FReepers respond in a knee-jerk way to something that they read. Maybe you need to read everything I wrote in the comment.
Here is what I wrote,
At least in the pews of the churches that teach the truth. Then maybe they will open their eyes and see their sin for what God says it is, and ask for forgiveness.
Please show me where I said that the church needs to cave in to sin by teaching homosexuality is OK..........
If a sinner does not get the truth and change their ways, they will cease to go to that church, if that church is teaching the truth.
Paul looked forward to meeting Nero who was Caesar at the time. Even though Nero was an extreme sinner. So extreme was Nero, that he had his male lover castrated and then married him. Yet Paul still looked forward to sharing the gospel with him.
That is our example, so yes we should invite all sinners to church. Otherwise we will just be preaching to the choir without reaching the sinners. So the next time you meet a homosexual, or other leftist sinners, invite them to church.