Reply #8: A note...

[David__77]

In my original posting, I was being, I admit, "provocative." I don't think that a church should have to perform same-sex marriages, or forces to perform interracial marriages, either.

I was making a parellel because I think people need to be a bit more outraged that there are not equal rights for same-sex couples. They need to view it in the light of civil rights. No one would dare defend laws banning interracial marrages these days, but many liberal-minded people still don't get it on same-sex marriage. Churches should be allowed to do whatever they want on this issue, BUT they should be CRITICIZED just as surely as if they were denying an interracial marriage. That is, though, a political and not a legal question.