Quote Originally Posted by TRiG View Post
So a thread about Nazi atrocities (and the further American and British atrocities, as they saw fit not to release those prisoners wearing the pink triangle) has degenerated into lying slurs against the president and against gay activists. You sure are a cl***y person, Columcille.



Churches may deny marriage to whomever they wish. You know that. Stop pretending you don't.

TRiG.
In the first place, I always here about seperation of Church and State. The Church does not have prisons, the State does. But if you are trying to tie the Church to Nazi Germany, you already realize that the Church in Poland suffered a lot more casualities under Hitler. I was only pointing that aspect out.

In terms of politics infringing into Church affairs, of course ****sexuals are not going to go where they are not welcome. That is not the point. The point is Government making stipulations that would favor certain religious groups over another. As such, I think the start of it is with Harry Knox and the Faith Based Initiatives. The question is, if it becomes a civil right issue for marriage of same sex, the next thing to do is to dictate churches to change their policy or suffer retracting their tax-free exemption or encourage civil litigation. Now in regards to Church's with actual racial policies, I can point to the fact that Mormons have as their second official declaration to allow blacks to become priests. I am not arguing whether Mormons have never had black priests prior to that declaration, but only the fact that there was a need to even publish it. The charges of racism as such could bring about litigation, and with racial religions whose policies are openly defiant, they could find civil repercussions. Have you not comparied the plight of ****sexuals with minorities and trying to persuade us of political activism to reduce "hatred" of ****sexuals? Again, I think you would love nothing more than Big Government to twist the churches to conform.