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Evangelical pastor: Straight couples should refuse to sign Calif. licenses
(Sacramento, California) An evangelical pastor is advising couples not to sign California’s gender-neutral marriage licenses as a protest.
After the California Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay marriage in May, the state amended its marriage licenses, replacing “Bride” and ‘Groom” with “Party A” and “Party B.”
Unless a marriage is registered, partners are unable to take advantage of rights accorded to married couples - including a bride taking her husband’s name.
This is outstanding! Now the Evangelicals will be able to experience first-hand for themselves what it's like to be in our shoes! Maybe now they will grasp the difference between the sacrament of marriage and the civil contract that is a marriage license! Maybe this will change some hearts and minds!
Yeah, I know, fat chance. But I can dream, can't I?
Wait until they get busted for fraud when one of them puts the other on his/her health benefits as "married" even though they are not, or when they file their taxes jointly. Or, heaven forbid, one of them should die and the other gets absolutely nothing.
(Sacramento, California) An evangelical pastor is advising couples not to sign California’s gender-neutral marriage licenses as a protest.
After the California Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay marriage in May, the state amended its marriage licenses, replacing “Bride” and ‘Groom” with “Party A” and “Party B.”
Unless a marriage is registered, partners are unable to take advantage of rights accorded to married couples - including a bride taking her husband’s name.
This is outstanding! Now the Evangelicals will be able to experience first-hand for themselves what it's like to be in our shoes! Maybe now they will grasp the difference between the sacrament of marriage and the civil contract that is a marriage license! Maybe this will change some hearts and minds!
Yeah, I know, fat chance. But I can dream, can't I?
Wait until they get busted for fraud when one of them puts the other on his/her health benefits as "married" even though they are not, or when they file their taxes jointly. Or, heaven forbid, one of them should die and the other gets absolutely nothing.