[fwdude]

Michael C. Culhane, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Conference, lobbied for three exemptions following the state Supreme Court's 2008 decision that legalized same-sex marriage.

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"In the long hours we ended up with a very strong religious exemption," Culhane said. "We were very, very happy."

He is also very, very deluded. Exemptions granted for wha should be constitutional rights are an absurd concept. What can be "given" can just as easily be stripped away.

An Orthodox Jewish demonstrator said it best: "The road to hell is paved with 'religious exemptions'."

[Tax-chick]

I think you are exactly right.

[sayuncledave]

Nicely put. These are not things given by the state, but things given by God which are recognized as such, by the state. He may be trying for optimism, but he ended up with what will almost certainly be fantasy.