Posted on 10/19/2014 4:13:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I dont even know anyone in Idaho, period.”
You do now... I’m from Idaho.
This is TRUE NON-separation of church and state =
and the gays are actively and deliberately seeking pastors that follow their faith -
please explain the separation of church and state again, thx
funny how the ‘separation’ only exists when the left wants to keep the churches from saying anything
meanwhile, we’re in the exact situation that promoted the religious exodus from Britian... religious persecution
those attempting to blackmail the churches should be thrown in prison themselves
Sounds like a return to the days of John Bunyan.
It has been there for a long time - I remember it when I was a kid in the 60s. Right across the street from the Kootenai County Courthouse. As far as I know, they have never done any church functions other than weddings.
Socially, Coeur d'Alene has changed a lot since my childhood. The quiet little town that I grew up in has become a popular tourist destination - great place to visit, lousy place to live. I moved away about 30 years ago and visit family every year but I don't have much desire to move back.
Now if we can get em to read ahead one more sentence to the NOT PROHIBIT part!
Heh, yeah no kidding.
We know that the moslims would kill them and burn down their fabulous houses (after raiding the closets, lol). The freaks only understand power, and know they won’t get any mercy from the ruthless, homo moslems.
What corrupt, pro-gay activist justices don’t want constitutionally ignorant voters to know about concerning the constitutionality of gay marriage is the following.
As mentioned in related threads, pro-gay, politically correct interpretations of the 14th Amendments (14A) Equal Protections Clause aside, city officials are in violation of Section 1 of 14A imo. Section 1 prohibits the states from making laws and policies which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens, the 1st Amendment protected freedom of religious expression in this case.
And since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights, gay marriage in this example, the city is wrongly using constitutionally unprotected gay marriage to trump a constitutionally enumerated right.
Sarah Palin is a native of Idaho.
I agree and support that notion 100%.
They are not a church. But that shouldn’t matter. He’s a real minister, who has the right to refuse performing a sacred rite to anyone outside his faith tradition.
Prison is too good for them ....
They pretty well know they’ll lose this battle: it is the war of Kulturkampf that they are aiming to win.
Doesn’t matter. They should still tell the Government to rot in hell. This is a hill worth dying for.
It’ll stop as soon as a high court weighs in. It would be like asking, say, a Catholic church to perform weddings upon non Catholics.
However, Satan looks with great glee at the rage he has engendered among Christians that he once more has misdirected. When one is raging, one cannot also be looking for avenues for God’s love (yes, love) to reach out.
It does matter. I don’t like the situation either but civil business is a different ball of wax from religious ceremony. It needs to be fought with different arguments. Here in WA State, we are still fighting the Arlene’s Flowers case.
And since when has there been a sane attempt to frame the whole within the context of the miraculous, surprising, supernatural love of God. Noted very carefully that love does not mean indulging sin but it does mean a very classy approach in spite of encountering sin. Anyone can get low down and rage. Even Satan can do that.
Real hard to make the case it's a "Sacred Rite" when these ministers seem to be running a resort-town wedding chapel with no religious affiliation.
I was married in a similar chapel in a similar location and I'm not going to tell anyone it was a religious ceremony, although religious elements were mentioned.
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