Quote:And people want to talk about marriage between same-sex individuals being a slippery slope by itself, holy crap. Any sort of law defending a practice like this would set the country back 50 years.

 

My only line exists with religious figures. If a certain religion expressly condemns homosexuality, leadership figures within that religion should be allowed to refuse to officiate marriage ceremonies between same-sex individuals. This rule does not apply if the religion itself is ambiguous on the topic but the officiant is opposed to it on a personal level. Religious buildings should still be required to house private ceremonies though, assuming those ceremonies don't conflict with existing commitments (i.e., don't try to book a wedding that conflicts with the weekly Saturday night service and sue when the church asks you to pick another time, but likewise, the church can't suddenly decide to make bingo a five-nights-a-week occasion purely to lock marriages out).

 

I know I'm walking that same tightrope regarding religion here, but I feel that the two issues are very closely linked, and I'm trying to be as vague about it as possible. I'm going to drop the topic after this post, because I'm not really sure there's anything I could say to further clarify my views on it.

 

How long do you honestly think that's going to last?  Activists will have to have some new cause to work their population into a frenzy over, and I have little doubt about what the next action item on their list will be.  They will go to a church, be it Catholic or some other denomination that has been very clear about their stance on gay marriage, and they'll ask to be married in the church.  When the priest or minister refuses on the grounds that their church does not support this, we've got the next great "civil rights" battle. 

 

We can talk about slippery slopes.  Activists were already out there today saying this was the next step.  They were not going to rest until they beat back this "religious intolerance" that forces the moral values of a specific faith community on others.  It'll happen, and it's going to happen very quickly.  There are plenty of activists out there just looking for the next lawsuit, just like they did when they sought out bakeries and other businesses that they knew would refuse to do business with them for religious reasons. 

 

This nation is allowing our courts to act as legislators.  In the span of 2 days, SCOTUS has rewritten one law and created another.  That's not their job, and it's a dangerous precedent to allow.

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