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To: marshmallow

The twist that will come out of all of this is that churches ultimately won’t have a choice in the matter, they either perform gay marriages or they do no marriages at all. If they discriminate they will be shut down. If they do no marriages then no one gets married within their faith.


8 posted on 08/04/2013 4:43:37 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Free Vulcan

They could do members only


10 posted on 08/04/2013 4:50:24 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Free Vulcan

Sacrament! In the Catholic church marriage is a sacrament. I don’t think the Obama/Clinton/Media Alinskyites can touch that one!


14 posted on 08/04/2013 4:59:19 PM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: Free Vulcan

I think we would see people married under God without a state marriage certificate


15 posted on 08/04/2013 5:01:51 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Free Vulcan
churches ultimately won’t have a choice in the matter, they either perform gay marriages or they do no marriages at all. If they discriminate they will be shut down.

Not so. I am a pastor of a church, and I don't do all weddings that people ask for, even for heterosexuals. I only do weddings if at least one of the couple is a member in good standing of my congregation, i.e., under my pastoral care. And since homosexuality is a sin, therefore an impenitent homosexual would not be a member in good standing of my congregation.

20 posted on 08/04/2013 7:07:22 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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