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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Who is lying?

No on 8 said

Fiction: Churches could lose their tax-exemption status.

  • Fact: The court decision regarding marriage specifically says “no religion will be required to change its religious policies or practices with regard to same-sex couples, and no religious officiant will be required to solemnize a marriage in contravention of his or her religious beliefs.”
Yet New Jersey ruled that the Methodist church must allow a same-sex couple to be married on its privately owned property. No religion will be required to change its practices? It will not stop here. If so-called anti-discriminatory laws require churches to open up their privately owned property to same-sex marriages, what stops couples from suing to be married within the churches themselves?

Setting aside the fact that this is a same-sex couple, this is private property. The organization, church or not, has the right to rent the facility to whomever they choose. The court cannot decide that.

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