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Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

  • Im a right leaning American, yes.

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  • Im not American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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We hear much about gay marriage these days, both in the media and in politics. However, many religions (not just Christians) are expressly against gay marriage. There are exceptions, but in general that is the current situation.

Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

My thoughts TK.
 
I have absolutely no problem with Churches not performing gay marriage.
 
I feel that the irrational fear of this very outcome is much of what drives the "anti-gay marriage" position.

As though extending beyond the traditional gender barrier on a civil marriage somehow negates the 1st amendment.

If anything, it forced churches to be a bit more honest about their quasi-religious business interests.

Suddenly it's not so easy to operate a business as though it was an extension of a church.
 
Of course they shouldn't, churches are not required to perform a marriage they don't want.
 
What is the point of this poll? No one is arguing that they should. Moreover, it would not be constitutional. Its nothing but a straw man. Churches already do not recognize all sorts of marriages that the government does recognize. For example, if you divorce and then remarry the Catholic Church will not recognize the second marriage. The same is the case with same sex marriage.
 
As long as the couple can be legally wed I see no problem with it
 
What is the point of this poll? No one is arguing that they should. Moreover, it would not be constitutional. Its nothing but a straw man. Churches already do not recognize all sorts of marriages that the government does recognize. For example, if you divorce and then remarry the Catholic Church will not recognize the second marriage. The same is the case with same sex marriage.

As with all of my polls, they are done for my purposes-even if that means you dont see the point.
 
Forced? No. Gradually convinced? Sure.
 
Absolutely not.

Neither should a Doctor be forced to perform abortions.

Slavery is dead. If my job asks me to perform a task, any task, that I don't want to perform, they can fire me, but they can't make me do it.

And if I own the company, or I am the boss, and I don't want to do it, then they can kiss my ass.

I may be pro-gay rights but I also stand for the rights of others, just the same.
 
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We hear much about gay marriage these days, both in the media and in politics. However, many religions (not just Christians) are expressly against gay marriage. There are exceptions, but in general that is the current situation.

Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

My thoughts TK.

in America no gets more complicated if your some place where a church is tied to the state
 
What language was that in? It resembles English, but doesn't seem to mean anything when I try to parse it as such.

sorry bob was building a tower the other day some 1 came and knocked it down haven't been able to talk right since we might need the gift of getting tonged hmmm lousy curses
 
Care to elaborate on this?

Social norms help dictate who gets the blessing of a Church. If same sex marriages and relationships become more of the accepted (rather than tolerated) norm, you will more likely see more religious institutions wed same sex partners.
 
I think someone is messing with the vote. I cant believe that 5 right leaning people voted yes and dont believe that 6 left leaning people did. Until I just voted, there were exactly the same number of yes's as no's. I just dont believe that that happened without someone messing with it.
 
I think someone is messing with the vote. I cant believe that 5 right leaning people voted yes and dont believe that 6 left leaning people did. Until I just voted, there were exactly the same number of yes's as no's. I just dont believe that that happened without someone messing with it.

Particularly in right leaning threads this has been an issue. Non-forumites can vote in public polls, and some appear to be hacking in or using different IP's to do just this. The mods know, but apparently can't do anything because the owners of this site want this function.

I used to make polls private but then we had lefties voting to throw off polls as well. Now I just ignore everyone but forumites when viewing the results.
 
This is a stupid poll. Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays AND no couple in their right mind would want to marry in a church that was forced to perform the ceremony. A reverse shotgun wedding is right out of Monty Python... but I guess we should consider the source of this poll.
 
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This is a stupid poll. Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays AND no couple in their right mind would want to marry in a church that was forced to perform the ceremony. A reverse shotgun wedding is right out of Monty Python... but I guess we should consider the source of this poll.

So your premise is Church's aren't in it for the religion but rather to make money?
 
That would be a symptom of a church that worships Mammon instead of God. The faithful should be very wary of any such churches.

What do you call a church that demands 10% of your income to be a member?
 
This is a stupid poll. Churches make money on weddings. There will never be any shortages of churches that WANT to marry gays AND no couple in their right mind would want to marry in a church that was forced to perform the ceremony. A reverse shotgun wedding is right out of Monty Python... but I guess we should consider the source of this poll.

In my opinion, no person in their right mind would want to eat a cake made by a baker that is forced to make the cake for them.
 
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