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In reply to the discussion: Reminder MY GD Friends: No church as EVER performed a marriage. NOT EVER. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)sealed by the State. Churches in the US make up their own damn rules for all aspects of their practice, meaning no matter what the law allows others to do, it never forces any faith group to do or to refuse any ceremony, ritual, act or courtesy. Divorce and remarriage for heterosexuals us ultra legal in the US and is done constantly, but the RCC refuses to acknowledge the divorce and will not wed a divorced person a second time. The law says they could, their dogma says they can't, so the law says they don't have to. This does not mean any person will be denied a divorce by the State, nor that they'd be denied another wedding by State or other faith group. It does mean RCC does not have to do what it does not wish to do.
This means that civil law allowing same sex marriage is not the business of RCC, Baptists, Mormons or any other group, they are and always will be free to do as they wish but no other American is compelled to do as they wish.
If it was simply true that 'people can get married' at all, you might have a point, but unfounded religious bigotry prevents that from being the fact.