Posted on 02/13/2012 3:44:27 PM PST by NYer
February 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State has signed into law a gay “marriage” bill that will force church-owned facilities to accommodate homosexual ceremonies.
Gregoire, a lame-duck Democrat governor who proposed the bill earlier this year, celebrated the end of defining marriage as between a man and a woman as she signed the bill on Monday.
“I’m proud our same-sex couples will no longer be treated as separate but equal,” she said.
The bill makes Washington the sixth U.S. state to redefine marriage, in addition to the District of Columbia.
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Local religious leaders have been particularly alarmed about the bill because it will force facilities owned by churches that are regularly used for marriages to be offered to homosexual couples.
The bill text states that religious organizations that provide accommodations, facilities, advantages, privileges, services, or goods related to the solemnization or celebration of a marriage to the public must offer all those goods for use to homosexual couples seeking marriage or else face a penalty for discrimination.
Evangelical Pastor Joseph Fuiten last month said that the bill’s “discrimination” language puts “virtually every church in Washington” under legal threat should they abide by the teachings of their faith on the nature of marriage.
They already have equality but that is not what they actually want. They want to force the church to accept homosexuality,” said Fuiten. Washington State in 2009 passed an everything but marriage domestic partner bill granting marriage benefits to homosexual couples.
The bill is expected to take effect no earlier than June.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has vowed to initiate a referendum effort to bring the new law before voters to decide on the ballot.
“NOM will not stand by and let activist politicians redefine marriage, the bedrock of civilization, without voters having a say,” said NOM president Brian Brown on Jan 23. “Just as we mounted a People’s Veto in Maine and were responsible for qualifying Proposition 8 to the ballot in California, we will make sure that voters in Washington have the ability to decide the definition of marriage for themselves.”
The churches need to fight this in the courts as well.
[[Perhaps we will have to distinguish between secular marriage, or government marriage, and biblical Christian marriage.]]
Liberalas are hell bent on declaring the church and Christians hatemongeurers for preachign God’s word that states homosexuality is an abomination- IF we were to seperate church marriage andf state marriage, then the liberals would have a broader brush to paint the Christians with declaring them intolorant and hateful- the state will get to stand up and say “See, we don’t ‘discriminate’ agaisnty anyone and allow everyoen to be married BUT the church doesn’t allow everyone to get married, therefore they are itnoloraqnt and discriminaatory’ (of course the state won’t oncider their own discrimination agaisnt hte church-)
[[We have been warning and warning and warning about this, and our liberal friends mock these concerns as “ridiculous” and “unfounded.” ]]
Exactly- they blatantly violate the constitution, and then accuse ANYONE who tries to sound the alarm of being alarmists- ridiculing those who see the writing o nthe wall-
It’s like barak who could deficate onstage, throw it at the audience, and convince them he is doing it for their own good, and soem would defend his actions by ridiculing those who might try to say “Do you think we’re stupid or something? You just crapped all over us and you want us to be thankful for it?”
The abortion provision issue was just a toe in the water to see IF they could get away with violating our consitutional rights- This Washington state gay marriage issue was and action by liberals who were emboldened by barak’s blatant ignoring of the consituton- now homosexuals WILL be goign after the churches just like you said and just likemany of us had been warnign for a long time now
This is what happens when you let a detestable liberal steal an election.
[[but belief in Darwin and the hoax of evolution is science?]]
Oh- absolutely, after all, they found a rat sized aquatic animal’s bones, and a hippo sized land dweller, and concluded that this was ‘transitional evidence’ that animals emerged from the sea- (of course they haveabsolutely no fossil evidence showing the myriad of transitions that woukld have had to take place between such a small animal and a large hippo sized land dweller- but meh- don’t pay any attention to the voice behind the curtains, Evolution is a fact based on this ‘excellent’ fossil evidnece
Who elected THAT dummy?
There is only one response for any pastor who believes in God’s laws: “We will not comply”.
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