Posted on 10/20/2014 9:45:07 AM PDT by GrandmaC
Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to a $1,000 fine, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.
Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene.
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We've been buckling for decades (background checks for guns/Federal Reserve Scheme/IRS/ Etc. etc.) While I find this is different as it's religious in nature, I fear the American people's response will be no different.
I’d go one step further and say that government at all levels should stay out of marriage. IMO it’s between a man and a woman and God. Family and friends have an interest in it but the government should not.
excellent post. Thank you.
Seems pretty cut and dried:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
And here everyone thought that just the middle-eastern Christians are being persecuted. Under ayatollah obama, and his athiest leftist communist regime (AKA: the federal government), you too as an American Christian get to enjoy being persecuted. Had enough of turning the other cheek yet? Ready for the next crusades? Or would you just prefer to die at the hands of
bloodthirsty muslim savages and godless soulless communists rather than offend them and make them call you names?
If they don’t need God YHVH in their little “marriages”, WHY do they need one of His representatives to perform their ceremony??
I simply refuse to to have anything whatsoever to do with “gay marriage” and if that means jail or fines (that I will not pay) or WHATEVAH, so be it. My Father is a terrible and awesome foe to have on your hands.
I very much agree. We can no longer dodge this issue - they are slapping us in the face with it.
BFL
We’re going to see what they worship . . . God or money.
This is Idaho - we are very conservative here. Well maybe not Boise, but definitely up here. Your right if we don’t fight it, we deserve what we get.
This has been happening in MA for years pastors being threatened with or losing their licenses to marry people if they don’t marry gays. The only real hold out is the Catholic church. Too much money and influence to go after. A terrible infringement on religious freedom.
Doctors were not surprised to see that he has no guts and no balls.
And to think I was seriously thinking of moving there...
Poll in today’s CDA Press showing a result that is much tighter than I thought it would be for that area...perhaps it has been ‘Californicated’?
More like Spokanated, probably.
I agree with the both of you-to me, marriage is a sacrament, and a member of the clergy performs the ceremony-the courthouse thing is a civil contract, like a business partnership, etc-it is not a marriage. Government has no business in the marriage business-they screwed it up just like they do everything else.
If homosexuals want to call it that, then let each state decide if it wants to sell them that piece of paper, but stop calling it a “marriage license”-no state needs to be selling permission for something that belongs to God. I don’t see atheists getting married by a priest/minister/rabbi-do we want them to be next to sue for that right?
” I don’t see atheists getting married by a priest/minister/rabbi-do we want them to be next to sue for that right?”
Yikes! Don’t give them any ideas!
LOL! It is a beautiful place. Come on up and join us.
Growing season’s too short. :)
Seriously, it had some stuff going for it -
the ability to work in Spokane in my profession, then “escape” to Idaho to go home...
Gay couples who can't find a minister WILLING to perform their ceremony can get it done by the county clerk, for free, I believe. They can also get it done by a back of the matchbook minister. They better stop pushing churches to do something that, to that church, is fundamentally wrong (as is my spelling), and they better stop running to the gov about something the gov has no real power to enforce. 1st amendment much?
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