AvgGuyIA
Gold Member
When gay marriage is in the 57 states they will call for tax-exempt status to be taken away from churches who don't marry gays. They will make what they believe is sound reasons for the measure. Count on it.First amendment applies. It's not nonsense. Even today, churches can refuse to marry anyone for any reason...inter-racial, inter-faith, non-faith, previously divorced.....totally ok for any church to refuse.Except any church has the total right to refuse to marry anyone they don't want to....just like the Catholic Church refusing to marry previously divorced people.I saw this coming back in 2012 when the Marriage Amendment was on the ballot. All the Christian sheeple flocked to the polls at their pastors' urging. "We're voting for the Marriage Amendment," they'd say at the polls. "It's the ONLY WAY to save traditional marriage!"
What complete idiocy. When you give the government the ability to legislate one way on an issue, you give it the ability to legislate in the exact opposite way as well. Conservatards, thankfully for us enlightened lybyryls, failed to see that; they only saw the rotten carrot we dangled before them--use the government to enforce their warped, patriarchal sense of morality onto the masses.
As soon as the result came in that the amendment passed, I knew that the future legalization of gay marriage had been set in stone. The next step is applying the same principle that shut down that anti-gay bakery to every church in the country--if a pastor or religious organization claim that marrying a gay couple in their house of worship is against their religion, slap them with massive fines, revoke their tax exempt status, and pursue other alternative means of corrective punishment until they either capitulate to the demands of the government or are forced to shut down completely.
Don't call it a grave, conservatards, it's the future you chose. And I for one thank you for it. Who'd have thought that hardline Christ-stain conservatards would be the ones responsible for the institution of marriage equality?
Nonsense. Private businesses, like bakeries, used to claim that same "right". Thankfully, in 2014, we have quashed that pathetic argument.
The government exists to uphold and protect the ryghts of everyone, especially minorities and those being discriminated against. This case is the first stepping stone to total government control over religion.
Fall in line with what our progressive government says is good and just, conservatards, or we will financially cripple your bigoted patriarchal cults and bring your flimsy, warped imitation of culture to ruin.