Same sex marriage

[StatCrux]

But fucking altarboys is ok?

Just checking.

I always find it quite interesting that if someone commits a crime and happen to be atheist, atheists jump and shout and point out that the crime had nothing to do with the person being an atheist. BUT...when a person commits a crime and happens to be religious they are happy to make the correlation. It always strikes me as inconsistant thinking. Does an atheist paedophile give me the right to accuse all atheists or even imply a correlation? Anyone doing such a thing would be reprehensible wouldn't they? To try and imply something about a group of people beacuse of the actions of others?

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Nothing to do with money. He's pissed at human rights groups - but churches as far as I can tell are perfectly allowed to decide what they want to do because they're running on private money, yes? Am I misunderstanding?

The minute they enter the public sphere then I should think the human rights groups can get pissy at them with legal standing.


Edit: I realize what I said didn't make sense considering the first sentence - I have a sinus headache. You get what I mean, I hope.

Nearly, at the moment, in law, same sex couples cannot marry. They can have civil partnerships. In the UK if you provide a service to the public you cannot discriminate on grounds of gender, sexuality etc. For example a hotel owner recently turned away a gay couple because of her religious beliefs and was taken to court. If marriage is made legal, the Church provides a service to the public of performing marriages, therefore a case can be made that they must not discriminate on grounds of sexuality. Even if the UK courts dismiss it the European court of human rights is known for its insanely liberal views and could force Churches to perform the ceremony.