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WCDT 2952-2956 (4-8 May 2015)
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
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--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 09 May 2015, 00:52 ---Same deal as gay atheists wanting the right to marry in a church.
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Has this ever actually happened? All the same-sex marriages I've ever heard of were secular. To the extent any were religious, it would be in a gay-friendly church. "Churches being forced to perform same-sex marriages" is a myth.
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Plenty of Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ churches have performed same-sex marriages in jurisdictions where it's legal. I believe some Episcopal churches do them too, and possibly a couple of other denominations. Not because they were forced to (nobody's actually trying to do that) but because they believe it's the right thing to do.
And the UUs will even accomodate atheist marriages.
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The UCC, to their credit, filed suit in North Carolina because the state's gay marriage ban impinged on their freedom of religion. The end result was NC's ban on gay marriage being ruled unconstitutional.
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I've always been a fan of that legal logic. Just... take the other side's argument and turn it on its head. Beautiful.
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