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Title: New Law Would Force Churches to Accept Gay Marriage
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Creative Minority Report
URL Source: http://www.creativeminorityreport.c ... -force-churches-to-accept.html
Published: Apr 24, 2012
Author: matthew archbold
Post Date: 2012-04-24 16:26:50 by hondo68
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Keywords: gay & lesbian or transgender, Human Relations Commission, the protected classes
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Comments: 86
A city council is weighing a proposed ordinance that would force churches in the Kansas town to rent their facilities for gay weddings. Poster Comment: Forced to allow Massachusetts Marxist marriages at your church?
This kind of thing nationwide is inevitable. Folks who are for gay marriage see it as a civil rights issue. And may see the Catholic Church and conservative Christian organizations as the enemy. Do you really think they'd fight for civil rights and then agree that the institutions they hate don't have to acknowledge those civil rights? Of course not. Like I said, this kind of law is inevitable everywhere.
Todd Starnes of Fox News reports:The Hutchinson City Council will consider adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the protected classes in the city’s human relations code. They are expected to vote on the changes next month.
Hey, if religious institutions can be forced to cover abortifacients and sterilization procedures, what's the problem with forcing churches to rent their halls to folks celebrating a gay marriage. Come on, what's a little drag party between friends?
According to the Hutchinson Human Relations Commission, churches that rent out their buildings to the general public would not be allowed to discriminate “against a gay couple who want to rent the building for a party.”
Meryl Dye, a spokesperson for the Human Relations Commission confirmed to Fox News that churches would be subjected to portions of the proposed law.
“They would not be able to discriminate against gay and lesbian or transgender individuals,” Dye said. “That type of protection parallels to what you find in race discrimination. If a church provides lodging or rents a facility they could not discriminate based on race. It’s along that kind of thinking.”
Matthew Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel Action, told Fox News the proposed law is “un-American.”
“It is a collision course between religious freedom and the LGBT agenda,” Staver said. “This proposed legislation will ultimately override the religious freedom that is protected under the First Amendment.”
He argued that churches cannot be forced by the government to set aside their religious convictions and their mission. And, he warned, some churches could even be forced to rent their buildings for drag parties.
I'd suggest that churches start decorating their halls in very drab colors to avoid interest from gay marriage celebrations. And maybe put up lots of sports memorabilia. Wait, the lesbians might like that. How about a wall of inspirational posters with pictures of sunsets and lakes and stuff with quotes from Maggie Gallagher saying things like, "Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement."
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
So, separation of state&church limitations and considerations are bonafide on the local level within the USA? ROTFL. Ain't gonna happen. Here is what shall happen: the city council shall rent space at the city hall or the city council private homes for gay marriages. That is all.
Don't you just love paying your high property tax bills when most of those mega churches pay none?
Hey baby killer. When the church building speaks then you can tax it. If you don't like it. Jump off a cliff.
#29. To: A K A Stone (#16)
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Churches need to stop being wards of their local governments and start paying their own way. I'm tired of supporting mega churches and their rich congregations that are getting a free ride on the taxpayers.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestA city council [government] is weighing a proposed ordinance that would force churches in the Kansas town to rent their facilities for gay weddings.
#4. To: buckeroo (#1)
So, separation of state&church limitations and considerations are bonafide on the local level within the USA? ROTFL.
#16. To: mininggold (#4)
Don't you just love paying your high property tax bills when most of those mega churches pay none?
Replies to Comment # 16. Hey baby killer. When the church building speaks then you can tax it. If you don't like it. Jump off a cliff.
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