Posted on 03/18/2014 3:00:21 PM PDT by lowbridge
A wealthy gay couple has decided to launch a lawsuit to force their church to perform their wedding. The Drewitt-Barlows, a millionaire couple from the U.K, stated, “We’ve launched a challenge to the government’s decision to allow some religious groups to opt out of marrying same-sex couples.”
Both attend St. John the Baptist church, a branch of the Church of England, and have been in a civil partnership since 2006.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow said that he and his partner Tony, “feel we have the right as parishioners in our village to utilize the church we attend to get married.
“It is no reflection on our local church, who have been nothing but supportive towards us. We understand their hands are tied by a higher group of people within the church.
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They’ll win.
But the gay rights people are so adamant in telling us that this will never ever happen.
Religious freedom was one of the reasons the British came over here. If it is taken away here, where can you go? Nowhere! Have to fight to keep it.
Drewitt-Barlow is not pleased with the law, and said, “As much as people are saying this is a good thing, I am still not getting what I want.”
Here we go...
Ahh.. The Drama Queen of England speaketh.
They can go to my former church...
Is anyone surprised at this? Anyone at all?
You’ve got to be tolerant. Or we’ll FORCE you to be.
This story is from August 2013.
That they may. The problem is that the CofE is an established church, and therefore a public institution, therefore cannot be seen to discriminate. A couple in England has the lawful right to be married in their local church, so here is where the discrimination comes in. If they want to avoid this, they must disestablish the Church. Something that should have been done centuries ago, frankly.
It’s all about the queers.
Over the top.
I hope the far left pulls back before their demands provoke a stronger response than the sissies can handle.
This is how bullies behave ... this is what they do to get their way ... all the while shouting from the rooftops how tolerant they are ... and how much they hate bullies.
how can they? they have no legal standing. The C of E is merely a messenger of the Word of God - a middleman as it were . They need to sue God in the appropriate jurisdiction and since that’s not going to happen in their lifetimes....
Just as FReepers predicted.
Poofters in England. They day this happens in America is the day I renounce my citizenship.
...here, they'll explain. And then they'll point to the rest of the homosexualized western world as an example of what is coming here.
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