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To: xzins
But others believe both ministers and government officials likely will have freedom not to perform same-sex marriages that violate their religious convictions.

Can they turn a couple down for a ceremony based on skin color? No? Well then, they can't turn down the deviants, either. Both are now a "civil right".

29 posted on 06/30/2015 10:31:01 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: dware
Can they turn a couple down for a ceremony based on skin color? No? Well then, they can't turn down the deviants, either. Both are now a "civil right".

If you're talking about government officials (e.g., county clerks, justices of the peace), you're probably right. If you're talking about churches, you're wrong-- no one in the US has ever successfully sued a Catholic church for not performing a wedding where one of the spouses is divorced, and no one has ever sued an Orthodox Rabbi for not performing an interfaith wedding.

66 posted on 06/30/2015 11:11:44 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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