As far as I'm concerned, churches can refuse to marry anyone they want to--the day they start paying taxes like the rest of us.
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Above is the mindset of some we have to deal with..no point in trying to help him understand the 1st article of the Bill of Rights..
Then there's Yellow, who assumes if we don't agree to encourage the sin of homosexuality, then we must want to persecute them...that takes a leap..
There are people who disagree vehemently with my pastime of hunting. They are welcome to disagree all they want, as long as they don't try to "persecute" me..
The fact is that by the courts deciding against deeply held beliefs in favor perversion, as was pointed out in the California decision stated in the link provided..serves to fracture society in a big way, leading to it's destruction.
From that link;
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" As I wrote in my book "Control Freaks," the 2004 case of Catholic Charities of Sacramento v. the Superior Court of Sacramento County demonstrated this.
In the Catholic Charities case, a six-to-one majority of the California Supreme Court upheld a law enacted by the California legislature that required Catholic schools, hospitals and charitable organizations to provide prescription contraception coverage for their employees if they purchased any prescription drug coverage for their employees at all."
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Events like this simply go to prove my contention that in most of the great empires/cultures which have fallen, recognizing this perversion as "normal" was one of the last major moves they accomplished before the dissolution of their society.