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Gay couple to sue church over gay marriage opt-out (England)
christian.org.uk ^ | 08/01/2013 | n/a

Posted on 08/01/2013 7:00:11 AM PDT by massmike

Wealthy gay dad, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, says he and his civil partner Tony will go to court to force churches to host gay weddings.

He told the Essex Chronicle that he will take legal action because “I am still not getting what I want”.

A Government Bill legalising gay marriage passed Parliament recently but it included measures to protect churches from being forced to perform same-sex weddings.

Challenge

Mr Drewitt-Barlow said: “The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the church.

“It is a shame that we are forced to take Christians into a court to get them to recognise us.”

He added: “It upsets me because I want it so much – a big lavish ceremony, the whole works.....

The gay couple shot to fame in 1999 when they became the first British same-sex couple to be named on their children’s birth certificates.

Last year the Church of England warned that the Government’s plans to redefine marriage could trigger legal problems and end the 500-year link between church and state.

(Excerpt) Read more at christian.org.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: formerlygreatbritain; gaychurchweddings; gaymarriage; gaystapo; homonaziagenda; homonazimarriage; homosexualagenda; homotyranny; lavendermafia; religiousfreedom; religiousliberty; religiouspersecution
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1 posted on 08/01/2013 7:00:11 AM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike; little jeremiah

homosexual agenda ping


2 posted on 08/01/2013 7:01:00 AM PDT by massmike (At the heart of every Paul-bot argument is the fear that someone will keep them from their weed!)
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To: massmike

lol, I didn’t see that coming.../sarc


3 posted on 08/01/2013 7:03:03 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: massmike
“I am still not getting what I want”.

Because, of course, what he wants is more important than centuries of theology, tradition, and history.
4 posted on 08/01/2013 7:03:06 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Truth/Lies; Liberty/Tyranny--WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE??)
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To: massmike

“OK OK we’ll accept a new law that allows churches to opt out... we’ll just sue them afterwards to force them to ‘opt-in’”


5 posted on 08/01/2013 7:03:20 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: massmike

lol, I didn’t see that coming.../sarc


6 posted on 08/01/2013 7:04:35 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: massmike
“I am still not getting what I want”.

Welcome to the real world. If I was getting what I wanted, Ronald Reagan would still be President.

7 posted on 08/01/2013 7:13:23 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: massmike

I will never recognize your perversion as anything but a vile perversion and you cannot make me. Go suck eggs.


8 posted on 08/01/2013 7:14:47 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Thane_Banquo

If I was getting what I wanted, well, let’s not go there.


9 posted on 08/01/2013 7:17:41 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: Mr. K
“OK OK we’ll accept a new law that allows churches to opt out... we’ll just sue them afterwards to force them to ‘opt-in’”

Coming here the day after SCOTUS declares SSM the law of the land.

10 posted on 08/01/2013 7:18:47 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: massmike

“Barrie Drewitt-Barlow”

With a moniker like that I think he was doomed from the get go.

Seriously, I’d like to see the complaint.

Will the Almighty be named as a co-defendant?

Drewitt-Barlow et al

VS

God et al


11 posted on 08/01/2013 7:18:56 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: massmike

why don’t these people ever sue mosques?


12 posted on 08/01/2013 7:19:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: silverleaf

“why don’t these people ever sue mosques?”

Because they’re afraid their case will “blow up” so to speak.


13 posted on 08/01/2013 7:22:16 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: massmike

If you read the book of Maccabees, the Greeks were forcing the Jews to eat pork and wouldn’t allow them to circumcise their boys.

Forcing the religious to commit actions against their conscious has always been a form of persecution.


14 posted on 08/01/2013 7:24:37 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: massmike

Entire point of the gay agenda is to force Church’s to partake in and bless their agenda, make any utterance of negativity of their life style hate speech.


15 posted on 08/01/2013 7:24:56 AM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: silverleaf

I noticed he singled out Christians.


16 posted on 08/01/2013 7:25:56 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massmike
Signs/sins of the times, which is yet another sign of the End of Times (our era).

Introduction to the Messages

17 posted on 08/01/2013 7:34:35 AM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Romans 1:18-32)
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To: massmike

And so it starts...anyone with brains could’ve seen this coming from a mile away. And eventually governments across the world will start to outlaw religion because it will be deemed hate speech. It’s a brave new world.


18 posted on 08/01/2013 7:38:33 AM PDT by erod (I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
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To: massgopguy

““It is a shame that we are forced to take Christians into a court to get them to recognise us.”

True. Do Muslims recognize them, or are they just unconcerned that the Muslims don’t recognize them?


19 posted on 08/01/2013 7:38:43 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: massmike
..he will take legal action because “I am still not getting what I want”, he said while furiously stomping his feet and later threatening to hold his breath.
20 posted on 08/01/2013 7:42:04 AM PDT by tbpiper
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