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To: Junk Silver
This is not aimed at you personally, but if you attend a bible-believing Christian church you are going to be expected to support the Supreme Court’s decision. Either your church will disregard God’s word and wed homosexuals or it will lose its tax-exempt status and be forced to pay corporate income taxes on all revenue and property taxes.

I agree that we should enact legislation to protect churches, just in case, but I don't think that's ever going to happen. There are plenty of types of weddings that are legal, but taht many churches and synagogues refuse to conduct, based on religious tenets (inter-faith, marriages of previously-married/divorced people, etc.). Even a Supreme Court that would overturn state marriage laws to allow for same-sex marriage would not force churches to conduct such marriages.

26 posted on 05/12/2015 7:09:55 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“Even a Supreme Court that would overturn state marriage laws to allow for same-sex marriage would not force churches to conduct such marriages. “

Sure, our noble government would never “force” churches to perform gay weddings, they would prefer to bankrupt them with the removal of tax-exempt status.


31 posted on 05/12/2015 7:15:14 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

In each case you mentioned, there are active lawsuits trying to force a faith group to hold a wedding.

And yes, they will go that far.


54 posted on 05/12/2015 8:17:05 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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