Duh!
So will all the apologists who say homosexuality is a private matter quit with the bs already?
time for civil disobedience.
I keep looking up for the big asteroid.
God defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The State can huff, rant and legislate all it wants, but it cannot change that fact. Any clergy who performs a ceremony for people whom God declares to be ineligible is not only null and void but disqualifies the clergy.
This “movement” keeps believing that enacting (Insert law or rule here) will satisy them and give them peace and happiness. And every time they get it, they are found wanting.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, please pick up the courtesty phone...
I know this is the UK, but isn’t there s separation of church & state?
The priests should just shrug and say “We don’t answer to you or the the EU Court of Human Right’s, we answer to the Pope in the Vatican, take it up with him.”
Will Islamic mosques have the same legal requirement?
Civil Disobedience is what is being “compelled”.
There is no “law” that can “force” me to perform any act.
Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
—Pope Leo XIII about 130 years ago.
The modern state’s involvement in the institution has been a disaster. It has simply taught folks that the state defines marriage, and marriage comes from the state, like charity and education. And when the state is involved, the definition it uses will simply be whatever judges, pols, or the majority think it is at any one time.
Freegards
And so, does this also apply to mosques... or just Christian churches?
Once the muslims express their displeasure, the UK government will snap-to and quickly make that distinction.