(March 19, 2012 at 7:03 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: I'm afraid you've been misled, the new UK proposals are to allow same sex marriage in a place of worship, Quakers and Unitarians want to have same sex marriage in their places of worship but are currently withheld from doing so from the law which prevents "full marriage" in a place of worship.
This is not proposing that a church is forced to do so. Rather the current laws on civil partnership make it illegal to have religious elements to the ceremony including, a civil partnership in a place of worship.
There is an deliberate lie being perpetrated about churches being forced to perform the same sex marriage based on the prejudice of that particular faith. What the new amendment to the Equality Act 2010 proposes is simply that churches that are happy to do so, are allowed by law to do so.
If the church is not happy to do so... they don't have to. That remains unchanged.
You see it as an attack on the church, whereas in reality, it is allowing certain less prejudiced faiths more freedom rather than restriction.
You are demonstrating my point, as I have said, the supporters of this change are saying that it will not be forcing Churches to perform same sex marriages, but this is not how the law funtions in reality, and they know that! Once it is UK law that same sex marriages are allowed in places of worship, they become places offering a service to the population and are open to human rights laws to being imposed on grounds of discrimination, thus forcing any church to perform same sex marriages if requested to do so. That is what is really being pushed. Its divisive and confrotational towards the Church.
