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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (112043)5/27/2009 2:47:18 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541599
 
How can a pastor say to such a couple I don't approve of your relationship and won't perform a marriage ceremony for you without opening the door to litigation? Remember that doctors have been forced by the courts in certain states to provide fertility treatments to lesbian couples even though there were other clinics in the area that were willing to do the same treatments.

Can you cite a case where a church was successfully sued for failing to provide a religious rite to someone based on discrimination? Not medical services or other charitable services, but religious rites like marriage.

I don't think the concept exists in western law. Churches are private institutions free to make up whatever rites they believe in as long as they don't involve harm to others.

The problem churches have trying to fight the validation of homosexuals is that they are the minority in this case, trying to impose their will on the majority and specifically a class of people they don't even want in their churches.

Sooner or later, the electorate will walk all over the last formal vestiges of this prejudice and leave it on the dump heap of history along with all the others. The younger end of that electorate doesn't share the prejudices of their elders.
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