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[quote=Anonymous][quote]this is not 100% accurate. one of the biggest fears of religious institutions is that they will be forced to perform a same sex marriage in their houses of worship. [quote]

[/quote]"You can have a gay couple enter a church, ask to be married and when refused, sue that church for discrimination" - that is 100% false. Also, the language was put into the NY and MD laws to reassure people, but churches are already allowed to discriminate. That's the law.[/quote]

The second poster is correct and furthermore it is incredibly dishonest for any religious leader or church official to lead their congregation to believe nonsense that same sex marriage means any gay couple can walk in and demand a religious ceremony. They know its not true and the church officials know full well that they determine who is eligible and under what circumstances that they will perform marriage ceremonies within the church. Churches have a wide array of rules to discriminate who can or can not be married within the church both based on beliefs and logistics. The church leaders do this everyday and they are being very dishonest here.

I think what they truly fear is not that the law would ever require them to perform same sex marriages but that their own congregation members over time may become more accepting of same sex couples and leave for churches that do support same sex marriages. An extremely conservative church leader would be threatened by anything that promotes more tolerance in the general community because it personally threatens his popularity.[/quote]

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