Gay Marriage Ban as Religious Discrimination?

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It bars clergy from blessing religious weddings. What part of

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

Do you not understand. Oh and by the way, the first amendment is incorporated. Here's your war on religion courtesy of conservative bigots.

You left out the more relevant part of the Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

If ministers aren't allowed to perform religious ceremonies without a specific state license, that violates their ability to freely exercise their religion and is unconstitutional. This is junior high level civics right here.

 

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Originally Posted by nehalem256
It was the first site that I found that quoted the actual law. And reading the actual law it is pretty clear that the left is BSing. See this quote from the NYT article:





It in no why bars religious blessing ceremonies or commitment ceremonies. That is a straight up lie.

The law is clearly talking about legal marriage, not religious marriage, as legally the state can in no way interfere with religious rites.

But hey lets follow the obviously retarded logic being presented here. Seems that by the logic presented if an ordained minister was to marry someone to a toaster the state would be forced to recognize that marriage as well :sneaky:

No of course your obvious retort will be to say that "you can't marry a toaster". But according to the NC constitution you can't marry someone of the same-sex. So by the laws of NC there is absolutely no difference.

It bars clergy from blessing religious weddings. What part of

:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
Do you not understand. Oh and by the way, the first amendment is incorporated. Here's your war on religion courtesy of conservative bigots.

Of course if this stands, there will be nothing to stop blue states from forcing the church to marry gays. :twisted)

That is correct.The 1st amendment was designed to designate the rights directly to the states.In which case,whatever that particular state says,goes.

I guess you missed this part..........:hmm:

You left out the more relevant part of the Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

If ministers aren't allowed to perform religious ceremonies without a specific state license, that violates their ability to freely exercise their religion and is unconstitutional. This is junior high level civics right here.

:hmm: apparently my Copy-Fu was weak.