Supreme Court Decisions

[jordan179]

I am glad that the Supreme Court sustained the legality of same-sex marriage across the country.  It is my profound belief, based on the logic that marriage is a mutual choice between any two people who decide to unite their lives in love, that marriage should not be only allowed between persons of opposite sexes.  Marriage is not purely for the

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[igorilla]

All churches which refuse to wed the same sex couples going to lose their tax-free status

[hastka]

Why do you think so? By analogy, if even a heterosexual Jewish couple went to a Catholic church and said "please marry us," and the church refused to marry them (in accordance with Catholic beliefs), I don't see how the couple would have legal standing to sue the church, or why that would result in the church losing tax-exempt status.

[igorilla]

I'm not an American, so I've got no opinion.

Your arguments make sense to me, I'll bring them back to my American correspondents, thank you

[hastka]

All I can ask is that I "make sense" on occasion. :)

That concern is one which I think drives fear for a lot of people in the US. Certainly it's possible to attempt such a lawsuit, but I don't grasp the mechanisms by which it would play out. Thanks for your own understanding and response.

[montieth]

Because people in government are saying that they should. Given the profound amount of movement in the IRS scandal, it's likely to say this is going to happen.

[benschachar_77]

Maybe because they are already suing people for not being sufficiently pro homosexual marriage. Perhaps because when asked about religious liberty exemptions their reply was weak.

[jordan179]

So we should punish gays for governmental overreach? Why not punish politicians and officials instead?

In a related story, burning the Jewish ghettos really didn't help the medieval banking situation, either.

[benschachar_77]

I never said to punish anyone.

It isn't the government suing, it's the homosexuals. Though making an example of the pols is definitely important. Neither of them should have it but they are using it.

[benschachar_77]

I suspect that no one will touch muslims over this. I am interested to see if Christians will take a cue from their playbook after so long.

[jordan179]

The law actually opens Muslims to this possibility as well. If gays do, and the result is serious anti-gay Muslim violence in America,this is going to turn out badly for Christians as well.

[hastka]

But are they already suing churches for that reason, and if so, successfully? And under which law? That's the issue raised here.

Bear in mind that I'm not talking about a wedding chapel type business which would marry ANY heterosexual couple regardless of church membership. I suspect they will be expected to be non-discriminatory about it on secular grounds. But that's not a religious institution