[usconservative]

It won’t be long until threesomes and more will be applying for civil union contracts and some churches will be performing multi-person “marriages”.

Any church that performs a religious ceremony to "marry" anything other than one man and one woman should be abandoned as quickly as possible by its congregation as that will be a "church" that has aligned itself with evil.

[Laserman]

Agreed

[ansel12]

Warren Jeff's wives.

[MalPearce]

Any church that performs a religious ceremony to "marry" anything other than one man and one woman should be abandoned as quickly as possible by its congregation as that will be a "church" that has aligned itself with evil.

I have no problem with that, but I just do not believe it's the job of any elected politicians to decide if any denomination of church has the ability to marry people that way.

The state is perfectly able to legislate on matters of child protection, financial conduct and to some extent the welfare of all its citizens, without saying to ANY church minister that it is legally prevented from witnessing an exchange of vows between two consenting adults.

Something else to consider, were a state to attempt to do this, it's a bit pointless if the exact same two people can simply cross a state line and do the exact same thing in the same denomination of church just like English people were able to bypass Hardwicke's restrictions by travelling to Scotland.