Why would anyone want to be married by someone who did not want to marry them?
I can understand expecting the city clerk to do a civil wedding without a peep of personal opinion, but if you’re choosing anyone else, wouldn’t you want someone who gets all warm and fuzzy about it?
Idaho Couple Facing Fines, Jail Time for Not Hosting Gay Weddings May Be Saved by State Law
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State Law??? pssh.
What some stupid State Law got to do with anything when some black robed thug can capriciously overtun that law as unconstitutional.
Or worse - Some Prosecutor can try the Knapp’s for violating the Civil Rights of queers.
It seems that, increasingly, tolerance is a one-way street.
Coeur d’Alene Councilman Dan Gookin told Fox News, “I understand that the way the law is currently written right now that the religious freedom has a priority. It trumps that other desire of mine to see more equality in that area.”
Dan, your desire, is NOT law.
I know you wish it were but it isn’t.
Mark my words: Within 20 years, the true Church will be driven underground by “public accommodation” orthodoxy...
In “LGBT”, the “T” stands for Tyranny.
What does Shria Law say about same sex marriage?
They aren’t denying anyone anything. They marry one man to one woman. Same-sex marriage is not a service they offer.
It is like me suing a car dealership for refusing to fix my TV.
Just as the Colorado bakers were willing to bake for gay people, just not to violate their faith by participating in a perverse parody of a wedding through providing a wedding-specific cake, I assume these people are willing to rent out their property to perverts, just not to violate their faith by participating in a perverse parody of a wedding. The accommodations are open, even to perverts, it's the personal service in opposition to God that is being denied.
The idea that anyone would think they could have either a legal a right or any power to compel others to defy God is disgusting at a level that I thought even the far left would never reach. Today's Liberals disgust me.
If I am a clergyman, then I can only perform marriages in accordance with the rules of my denomination. I cannot do otherwise. A rabbi cannot perform a Catholic ceremony. Neither can a priest perform a Jewish ceremony. If a denomination defines marriage as between a man and a woman then that is how it must be. If two people of the same sex wish to be married, then the ceremony must be performed in the auspices of a denomination that uses that definition of marriage.
Seems that there is perhaps an easy way out of this...
In Idaho in order to Solemnize a marriage, one must be either one of various public or Indian officials, or priest or minister of the gospel of any denomination.
If the bylaws of the denomination specifically specifically suspended the minister during the time period of the wedding, then under Idaho law he or she would not be allowed to perform such a ceremony as the agent of the state.
Why is it that the City Councilman has a desire to see more ‘equality in that area’? And why does he refer to the law as it is ‘currently written’?
Why would any normal person make comments like this Councilman has? Is the Councilman homosexual? Or is he under pressure by some homosexual group?
The California Transplants are turning Coeur d’Alene into their little West Hollywood!
Somewhere in this great land of ours an entrepreneur is setting up the Rainbow Cake Company: “Cake you can have up yours, and eat it, too!”
I was planning on going there to remember the 1969 National Scout Jamboree next summer but Coeur d’Alene is off the list. Guess they’ll have no trouble getting money from other tourists.
The US Constitution protects their religious freedom.
They shouldn’t have to do this. Freedom means freedom, religious organization or not.