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21 Nov 2008 08:46 am
Marriage Equality And Religious Freedom
A reader makes a point that isn't made often enough:
I am another gay man who has no problem with a church refusing to
conduct a same-gender marriage rite. What I don't understand is why
the conservatives/fundamentalists can't get it through their collective
skull that their insistence upon enforcing in civil law their
particular interpretation of theology is also an excercise in religious
discrimination.
The Unitarians have been marrying same-sex couples for
some thirty years, and likewise some congregations of the United Church
of Christ, the Metropolitan Community Church, and I'm sure a number of
other religious groups I don't even know. Why do the fundamentalists get to discriminate with the force
of civil law against the U/U, the UCC, and the rest? When did they get
the right to have their religious interpretation enshrined in civil law
at the unavoidably explicit expense of the others
' interpretation?
When did they get the right to be the government's de facto Department of Inquisition?
This struggle is not just between secularists and Christianists. It's also between Christians.
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