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Not the pp, but I will say this. You're fooling yourself if you believe that churches won't be forced to marry gay couples if gay marriage is made legal on a federal level. I can just see the lawsuits coming from gay people who were denied their personal freedom to marry at a church.

And again, just because a person has viewpoints that are different from your own does not make them bigoted. It makes them different. Please grow up and realize that we all don't have to think and/or feel the same to get along and have respect for one another. [/quote]

I totally disagree.  We already carve out exceptions to Federal laws for [u][b]churches[/b][/u] (as distinguished from a charity or hospital for example).  The recent Catholic birth control controversy being a perfect example.

As one of the most liberal of liberals, I have no legal problem with religions discriminating, as I feel they often do, against women and homosexuals, for example.  Oh I hate it, but I accept that to each faith, their own.  Because belonging to such a church is a [u]choice[/u].  No one forces Americans to belong to a particular church, or any church at all.  Don't like the discriminatory practices at the local church?  Start your own church and be as gay as you want.  Or refuse to wear a head scarf to service.  Or have a female minister.  Or just become a Unitarian like I am.

I don't believe that even most liberals would tolerate the Feds telling a [b]church [/b]what it must or must not do in these areas.  As a former Catholic, I am not fond of the church.  But I respect its rights to believe what it wants, preach what it wants, practice what it wants - and marry whomever it wants.  Meanwhile my church will enthusiastically marry all those gay folks.  We just want their marriage to be treated the same under the law as any other.  That's part of MY religious beliefs.    [/quote]

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