Gay marriage & Faith practice
As proverbial wisdom teaches:
The one who states their case first seems right,
until another comes and states theirs.
This is a controversy clash that won’t go away.
“…allowing same-sex couples to force religious individuals or organizations to act out of accord with their faith is not cost-free either. Their dignity is no less affected. Unless claims rooted in equal protection under the law are to sweep away claims rooted in freedom of religion, a more sensitive balancing approach is essential…
If past rulings are any guide, it is religious rights that are likely to be “obliterated” by an emerging popular majority supporting same-sex relationships — and it seems unlikely that the California courts will intervene. That’s a shame.”
From opinions article in LA Times, contributed by Marc D. Stern - general counsel of the American Jewish Congress and a contributor to a forthcoming book, “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty.”
June 27th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I think this discussion will be with us for a long time to come because we live in a pluralistic society where not everybody believes the same thing. Not a bad thing, imo. And up here in Canada where same-sex marriage has been legal for some time, no religious institution would ever be forced to marry anybody it didn’t want to. This of course is the same as the state not forcing Catholics to marry non-Catholics, divorced people, etc.