If churches in the US are forced to marry gay couples, it will be - as far as anyone seems to be able to find out - the first time they've ever been forced to marry anyone:
“The idea that we would be forced as clergy to perform a marriage that was against our conscience, or that a church would lose its tax-exempt status, is ridiculous,” said the Rev. Karen Sapio, the minister of Claremont Presbyterian Church in Southern California. “If you look dispassionately at the record, there are a lot of churches with policies that are at odds with civil law.”
She continued, “I have not heard of a single Catholic church forced to marry someone who has been divorced, or a rabbi forced to perform an interfaith marriage or an evangelical church forced to marry a couple who has been living together.”
Nor, apparently, have the proponents of the gay marriage ban heard of any such thing, or we'd be hearing all about it.
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Date: 2008-10-31 12:34 pm (UTC)http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/us/27right.html
Nor, apparently, have the proponents of the gay marriage ban heard of any such thing, or we'd be hearing all about it.