Clergy are free to marry anyone they want. The marriage just may not be legally binding.
These so-called churches appear to be like Zero’s Chicago church. Prabably believe there’s a big space ship up there waiting to take them away. Can’t happen too soon!
All of the world’s major religions believe in marriage being between a man and a woman. Homosexuality has always been around, and every religion recognized it as abnormal behavior. This is just the LBGT community attempting to destroy the institution of marriage, as many gays have stated.
Ҥ 51-6. Solemnization without license unlawful.
No minister, officer, or any other person authorized to solemnize a marriage under the laws of this State shall perform a ceremony of marriage between a man and woman, or shall declare them to be husband and wife, until there is delivered to that person a license for the marriage of the said persons, signed by the register of deeds of the county in which the marriage license was issued or by a lawful deputy or assistant. There must be at least two witnesses to the marriage ceremony.”
From here, as pointed out by a Freeper in another thread:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByChapter/Chapter_51.pdf
I think a lot of states have this on the books, it comes up occasionally when widowed folks want to be married again but not have their benefits or pension affected. I don’t know if it is enforced, whenever I have heard of it the religious entity uses it for justification to not perform the ceremony, not that the state prosecutes the minister.
Bottom line is if a faith group believes the parties are suitable for marriage, it’s not much of a faith group if it isn’t willing to take the punishment for declaring someone married without a state license.
Freegards