RE: Same sex marriage
May 19, 2012 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2012 at 10:45 am by Cyberman.)
Perhaps if the Church were to refuse to "perform such unions", the people who want to marry would simply go somewhere else. It's marketplace common-sense; if you refuse to sell me a loaf of bread, I'll just give my money to someone else who will serve me. This stick-in-the-mud attitude would certainly not put a stop to same-sex marriage, which, in this scenario, is fully legal remember. It all depends on whether the Church wants to be regarded as the dinosaur institution it is. The only organisation forcing a divisive confrontation is the one refusing to be relevant to the people on whom its raison d'etre depends.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
