(January 4, 2014 at 11:49 pm)là bạn điên Wrote: I'm going to break ranks here and state that there IS a chance that Christians will be forced to marry Gay people in churches. I don't know about the USA but the UK submits to the European court of Human rights which acts 'legislating' from the bench. It is a distinct possibility that once Gay marriage becomes The norm throughout Europe that a group will bring a case to the ECHR demanding an end to discrimination by churches against gay people and the case will be upheld which will lead to certain unwanted circumstances. I think churches SHOULD be able to refuse gay marriage BUT in the UK Anglican(episcopalian) churches should have to allow gay marriage even if certain Ministers may refuse to conduct them.I really doubt that will happen. Churches have always been able to refuse to marry any couple they don't want to for any reason. Some won't marry a couple where one or both parties have been married previously, for example; and some will only marry couples who attend services regularly. I've even heard of racist Churches refusing to perform traveller weddings.
I doubt that that's ever going to change, unless Churches still exist in like 100 years or something, but that's not very likely.
