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To: Seven Minute Maniac

This is about gay marriage. Maybe I am nuts , but I always figured pushing the marriage issue the same way as a man and a woman was just a way of setting it up to go into churches all over the country and demand pastors marry them. Even if it is against his religious belief. If he says "no , I cannot", they will then complain that their constitutional rights are being violated, setting up a scenario of removing tax exempt status. Another way of trying to destroy the church in America. To one who is not religious, probably doesn't bother them.


7 posted on 11/15/2006 11:10:04 AM PST by dforest (Don't get fooled, the bigger struggle is still out there, and growing)
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To: indylindy
I always figured pushing the marriage issue the same way as a man and a woman was just a way of setting it up to go into churches all over the country and demand pastors marry them. Even if it is against his religious belief. If he says "no , I cannot", they will then complain that their constitutional rights are being violated, setting up a scenario of removing tax exempt status.

You are not crazy. There is already a provision in the International Criminal Court statute which is designed, in part for this very purpose. It is a vaguely defined "crime" called "persecution," which consists of denying any fundamental human right to any group or collectivity, or words to that effect.

Since "marriage" has already been defined as a fundamental human right, this statute will inevitably be used to imprison some priest or pastor who refuses to perform a marriage for a same-sex couple.

43 posted on 11/15/2006 11:31:56 AM PST by lady lawyer
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