I understand that this will be used to try to force churches to marry homosexuals, but I don’t understand how it can be legally justified or successful.
Churches have never been obligated to marry anyone whom they do not believe should be married, for any reason. Many people are married in civil services because they do not meet or do not wish to meet criteria set up by the church. Any minister/pastor/priest can refuse to marry a couple who do not meet the criteria of their church, even if the couple are otherwise legally able to be married. In particular, a divorced, un-anulled Catholic may not remarry in any Catholic church.
So while I predict a great uproar and many flamboyant attempts to force churches to participate in these sham marriages should this turn out badly in the USSC, I don’t see a change in the civil definition of marriage being able to be forced (legitimately) on churches.
Just my 2c
O2
They can't legally justify it.
What hath the LORD answered ?
What hath the LORD spoken ?
What hath God said that they which commit such things are worthy of ?
Whom shall the homosexuals' blood be upon ?
What did God say that the land will do to those who commit their abominations ?
What did God say would happen to their VERY SOULS, who commit such abominations ?
Read
Exodus 18:13-27 and
1 Corinthians 6:1-11, and think on it for a few days.
Homosexuals aren't "born that way".
They had to "Earn their REPROBATE MIND" by
refusing God ~ not once, ~ not twice, ~ but THREE times!
You need to
not only read, BUT STUDY this link I especially agree with its last paragraph.
" The Church NEVER can and NEVER will give satisfaction—and the homosexualist knows it,
for he knows the words against him are INERADICABLE
—to the declared and impenitent homosexual,the person who, through an act of the vermiculate will,has identified his person with a sin,whether HE DEMANDS ACCEPTANCE OF HIS SINthrough "love,"
or VINDICATIONTHROUGH IDENTIFICATION OF HIS PERCEIVED ENEMIES AS BIGOTS.
Whether HE PRESENTS HIMSELF as an object of love or indignation,what HE DEMANDS in either case IS ACCEPTANCEnot of the person,but OF THE SIN-bound and SIN-DEFINED person.
HE DEMANDS the declaration of SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY thatTHERE IS NOTHING OBJECTIVELY DISORDERED about this BINDING OF MAN TO SIN,and ASSURANCE that THIS MONSTROUS AMALGAM can indeed ENTER the kingdom of heaven.
This can NEVER HAPPEN among Christians UNTIL THEY ABANDON Christianity,WHICH IS AT WAR WITH EVERY SIN,and whose indelible constitutionplaces ALL PERVERSIONS of the perfect manAT THE MUZZLE of its canons. "
There will be NO HOMOSEXUALS ( NOT ONE ) in the afterlife.
They WILL BE
ASHES UNDER the soles of your feet ! ! !