Religious group files lawsuit against North Carolina's gay marriage ban

[lovedforaday]

Same-sex marriage bans have faced a number of legal challenges over the years, but a new lawsuit from the United Church of Christ is apparently the first challenge in the courts to invoke religious liberty. The suit will ask a district court in North Carolina to strike down the state's laws barring same-sex marriages, in part because a provision

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[zinnia_rose]

This is a refreshing turn of events. I saw "religious group files lawsuit" and "gay marriage" and thought "oh not this bullshit again" before reading the title properly. It was a pleasant surprise.

[ladycyndra]

Same.

[shortsweetcynic]

ditto.

[vapor]

Nice

[amyura]

I love the UCC.

[bnmc2005]

YES! Go get 'em kids. I was wondering when someone was FINALLY going to take this angle!

It never stood to reason that Gay marriage (or gay anything) was banned on some all-encompassing "Religious" grounds as if the two things were mutally exclusive. Why does Fundie mentally override someone else's Pro-gay Religious freedom?

It always angered me that Religous conservatives THRIVED on the lie that Gays couldn't be Christian, or any other religion for that matter, if they so please - and Yes, many might want celebrate their lives within their own church. Who's to say that Their brand of Fundie Church of Christianity can define a law over and despite of a more (Christ-like, IMO) church's POV?

[thesilverymoon]

I fucking love the UCC. I was raised Unitarian but my parents converted to UCC when I was 12 (admittedly at my urging since I hated going to a Unitarian church and the UCC youth group served doughnuts) and honestly it was such a great change. I have so many great memories of that place--even after I stood in front of the entire congregation and told them all that I was an atheist (which will go down as one of the most terrifying moments of my life), they continued to accept me. Once about 10 years ago the Westboro Baptist Church picketed my church after our minister wrote an article in the paper about how he welcomed gays and supported gay marriage, and in response to the protest the minister's son set up a counter protest where people would donate money for every few minutes the WBC was out there. They ended up raising something like $2000 for the local Queers and Allies association.
In short, if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to become a Christian, this is the church I would join in a heartbeat.