Posted on 10/08/2014 1:27:30 PM PDT by redreno
CHESTER, Va. — The Christian preschool teacher heard the news on her car radio: Same-sex marriage is now legal in Virginia.
This is it, she thought. The end times.
“It could happen today,” Pam Rives said on Tuesday, tidying her lemon-yellow classroom at the Ironbridge Baptist Church. “This is just another step in that direction. As society changes, it takes God out of it.”
Rives, 57, has taught 4-year-olds for nearly a decade in this conservative pocket of the South, which is home to 20,000 residents. Her school, lined with October pumpkins and bubble-lettered prayers, is down the road from the Chesterfield County Circuit Court.
Her hometown court issues marriage licenses. This week, it made a slight edit: “Bride and groom” became “spouse and spouse.”
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The democrats took God out of it in 2012 when they voted yo take any reference to God out of their resolutions at their convention.
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