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I have absolutely no problem with Churches not performing gay marriage.
What is the point of this poll? No one is arguing that they should. Moreover, it would not be constitutional. Its nothing but a straw man. Churches already do not recognize all sorts of marriages that the government does recognize. For example, if you divorce and then remarry the Catholic Church will not recognize the second marriage. The same is the case with same sex marriage.
Forced? No. Gradually convinced? Sure.
We hear much about gay marriage these days, both in the media and in politics. However, many religions (not just Christians) are expressly against gay marriage. There are exceptions, but in general that is the current situation.
Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?
My thoughts TK.
in America no gets more complicated if your some place where a church is tied to the state
What language was that in? It resembles English, but doesn't seem to mean anything when I try to parse it as such.
Care to elaborate on this?
I think someone is messing with the vote. I cant believe that 5 right leaning people voted yes and dont believe that 6 left leaning people did. Until I just voted, there were exactly the same number of yes's as no's. I just dont believe that that happened without someone messing with it.
This is a stupid poll. Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays AND no couple in their right mind would want to marry in a church that was forced to perform the ceremony. A reverse shotgun wedding is right out of Monty Python... but I guess we should consider the source of this poll.
Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays…
That would be a symptom of a church that worships Mammon instead of God. The faithful should be very wary of any such churches.
So your premise is Church's aren't in it for the religion but rather to make money?
This is a stupid poll. Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays AND no couple in their right mind would want to marry in a church that was forced to perform the ceremony. A reverse shotgun wedding is right out of Monty Python... but I guess we should consider the source of this poll.
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