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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I have not posted in a very long time. I no longer have any ping list. Between Houston and here, the slipper slope has begun to take away our freedom of religion as a Christian.
Next up, fines and jail for not participating in homosexual acts if they decide they want you
But we’re a Free People, who make laws that define our society, ya know?
Keep repeating that
Alliance Defending Homosexuality
There, fixed it.....
Americans, here is the hill to fight. Distinguish between what government licenses are vs religious marriage. Call this what it is....tyrannical government infringing on the freedom of religion. Say, it’s time to separate government/economic status from the concept of marriage. Change name from marriage license to civil union.
Let gay men and women choose to classify themselves legally as a union for taxes, healthcare and legal visitations. Stop calling it marriage.
http://cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_f2c7d4e9-ebd4-54ab-953d-7d638e2b1122.html
Local papers article on this
Alliance Defending Freedom is defending the Christian Ministers against the gay activists. ADF is one of the good organizations.
I have been duly corrected by private mail. I read it the wrong way apparently.
This is what happens when the Feral Government regulates marriage. The states are to make those rules. Marriages that are performed by the state should be done at the courthouse. The government should keep its nose out of marriage performed by churches, as long as they obey state law on matters such as age. What happened to that mythical “wall of separation between Church and State” now?
“But we’re a Free People, who make laws that define our society”
There I repeated it! We are quickly becoming like Canada, but we are Americans and we HAVE to fight it.
I agree.
Watching great granddaughter so have to go will check back later.
We’re all going to have to face this kind of thing as time goes along. We’ll have to make a decision to knuckle under or face legal problems, maybe lose a job, lose your business, lose your kids.
Thats when you get to prove you believe what you say you believe. Right now its bakers, teachers, home-schoolers, pastors, marriage chapels. But eventually we’ll all have to stand or stand down.
“Change name from marriage license to civil union.
Let gay men and women choose to classify themselves legally as a union for taxes, healthcare and legal visitations. Stop calling it marriage.”
I couldn’t agree more! Gay men and women have achieved the ability for their union to be viewed as “equal” in the eyes of the government, but they should never be allowed to feel that their union is equal in the eyes of God to the marriage of a man and a woman.
The church should either take back the word “marriage”, or begin calling the sacrament “holy matrimony”.
Who didn’t see this coming?
Meanwhile in Las Vegas they are welcoming the gays and even stole a truckload of Crisco....
We are not going to fight. We are just like a bucket of crabs. Someone rises to fight and the others pull them back in the bucket, screaming, “We are better than that”! And so it goes. If we are not willing to shed our blood for the rights God gave us, and the evidence thus far shows that we are not, we deserve to lose them. That is the long and short of it.
When did marriage become a religious thing? It wasn’t a religious thing for the Pilgrims and Puritans who colonized this country. Marriage of a man and a woman was a necessity for the continuation of the species and for civilization itself it was a bedrock.
It was not a religious thing, it was a necessity.
Take the jail time.
We need conscientious objectors to the Totalitarian State.
Coeur d’Alene BUMP
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