PubliusInfinitum
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did i say that churches must perform ceremonies....no ...i said you want to pass a law tell the church that that a word they have historically defined as a man and a woman is now two people.....thus they will become guilty of discrimination under federal law....and then you will have an interesting moment....
Again, no proposed law would have done any such thing. In fact, the laws have specifically required only the states to recognize the unions, leaving religious ceremonies out of the bills forwarded thus far.
Nice fearmongering, though.
so let me get this right.....when mariage is defined as the union of two people....under no circumstances will it be a violation of federal law for st mary's cathedral to deny two gay catholics the right to get married in the church they grew up attending.....
and as i keep saying if you all had simply asked for civil union at the federal level you would have it by now....
They don't need to ask the Federal Government to do ANYTHING...
They can file articles of incorporation TODAY and be recognized as one legal entity, with enormous financial benefits; income sharing, joint pensions, single tax filing... and so on...
Every single LEGAL BENEFIT of "marriage" is available through incorporation... and where they feel that such is insufficient, THEY CAN LOBBY TO HAVE THE LAW CHANGED!... Tax law is changed EVERYDAY in the Legislature; and such does not turn the culture on its head..
But the fact is that THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ANY OF THAT... what they want is the LEGITIMACY that MARRIAGE, in the RELIGIOUS SENSE... provides.
And this DESPITE THEIR PROTESTATIONS THAT MARRIAGE IS PURELY A CIVIL, LEGAL... issue.
They're liars... and those who lend credence to their lies, are fools... PERIOD.