Ministers Threatened with Jail/Fines For Refusing to Officiate at Gay Weddings

[Anomalocaris]

You have it backwards.

Sorry McFly.

George and Martha Washington didn't have a marriage license....why?....because back then you didn't need permission from the state to get married. You just did it(usually in a Church).

Yes, and they drove their buggy without state driver's licenses either, and they could, if they wanted, smoke anything they fancied as well. They just did it. You can do what you the hell you want if you don't expect state to provide services to you to support what you want to do. In a minimalist state that provides no services, you can do what the fuck you want.

Here if the church does not expect a church marriage to receive state services and benefits given to a civil marriage, they can do what the fuck they want. But they want to get state services and benefits for the type of marriage which does not meet state qualifications. This is all the more important because it is and always has been the aggtrandizement strategy of christainity to subvert publically beneficial institution to serve the ends of their religion, and in the end claim credit for creating the institution they subverted from others.

Let's be clear, these moronic ministers are not arguing the world ought to be as if the state provided no services. What they, and you, want is for your religion to freeload off the state's services while subverting the institutions of the state to religious ends.