(March 19, 2012 at 8:49 am)thesummerqueen Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 8:42 am)StatCrux Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 8:31 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: You are missing the point: the church is NOT being forced, as far as I can tell, to perform the ceremonies.
YET, at the moment there is no way of legally challenging the Church, once "marriage" is legalised between same sex couples, the Church is open to the legal challenge through the European court of human rights (which has a history of overturning UK courts, it has recently overturned UK law that prevented murderers, rapists and paedophiles from being allowed to vote, saying it was their human right to vote!) What happens then, if the court rules it unlawful to refuse to perform same sex marriages?
Am I missing something in churches and marriages being somewhat private functions and gov't elections being public ones?
So it seems to me Summer.... just follow the money
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