RE: Ministers Threatened with Jail/Fines For Refusing to Officiate at Gay Weddings
October 25, 2014 at 11:18 am
(October 25, 2014 at 10:58 am)Blackout Wrote: To be honest, I'm not sure if Christianity condemns interracial marriages or not so I cannot talk about the problem - But when exercising freedom of religion aggregated with religious institutions such as churches, an individual shouldn't be forced to marry gay people... But of course, if we're talking about civil marriage, Dura Lex Sed Lex.
Christianity has a tendency to condemn whatever would garner them the votes of the hicks, rednecks, and other undereducated and the reactionary, until such time as the general social progress makes a particular opportunism too costly with the general public, they then turn 180 on the issue, while claiming they have always been consistent and we're always divinely inspired to lead progress.