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To: sten
if the SCOTUS rules fags have a ‘right’ to marriage... will the fedgov then move to arrest anyone that doesn’t perform these ‘marriages’?

No. For example, there is a legal right to interdenominational marriage, or to remarry after divorce. But churches and clergy have the right to refuse to perform those marriages.

16 posted on 04/24/2015 8:14:43 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
there is a legal right to interdenominational marriage, or to remarry after divorce. But churches and clergy have the right to refuse to perform those marriages.

The people you mention don't have quite the political influence that the sodomy lobby has. Their behavior to date shows me that they will try to force compliance as soon as they think they can.

33 posted on 04/24/2015 8:50:30 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
No. For example, there is a legal right to interdenominational marriage, or to remarry after divorce. But churches and clergy have the right to refuse to perform those marriages.

Hmmm, perhaps that is because there has been no ginned up hysterical movement for anyone to stand up for the 'rights' of the interdominational partners or the divorced.

While you are correct about these two examples, I am not so sure that they can be used to forecast the outcome for these new 'right' holders. (We already read reports of Christian pastors north of our border in Canada being arrested for preaching from the Bible on this matter.)

45 posted on 04/24/2015 9:19:51 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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