The United Church of Christ is joining the national debate on the future of gay marriage in a novel way: The church filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage, saying Amendment One violates the church's constitutional guarantee to freedom of religion.
According to the church, this is likely the first challenge by a national Christian denomination of a state's gay marriage ban.
Amendment One, the church argues, makes it a crime for its clergy to officiate a marriage between two people of the same sex. That, the church argues, puts a limit on the church's exercise of religion.
"It is unfortunate that, even today, laws are designed to treat gay and lesbian people unequally," the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, the church's general minister and president said in a statement. "In its efforts to restrict gay marriage, the State of North Carolina has restricted one of the essential freedoms of our ministers and of all Americans."
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GASP, a "christian" that gets it.
ReplyDeleteReally, the haters were that stupid? That actually doomed their own law with over reach. lol
ReplyDeleteThe guy obviously isn't qualified to be a "rev" and he is basically trashing true christianity
ReplyDelete5:48 Who are you to judge or deem what is true or not?
ReplyDeleteHomosexuality is a perversion and mental illness... These people need help not exploitation.
ReplyDeleteI don't judge or deem what it true or not, but God does, and he deems homosexuality to be an abomination. Therefore, any "minister" who performs, promotes or agrees with gay marriage may be practicing a "type" of religion, but it is not Christianity. There will be many false prophets, we are told in the Word. This minister is one.
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