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Originally Posted by thetalady
MC, does this decision also mean that religious leaders of all faiths will be required to perform same sex marriages? Could they be prosecuted for discrimination if they refuse? or is that an issue coming later down the road?
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I know this has been answered already, but look at it this way - we have the right to own guns, however, if you tried walking into a nightclub with one, they can turn you around and not allow you inside.
I think what a lot of people don't know (and what I didn't really know until I took my first law class in college) is that the Constitution protects us against the
government. It doesn't demand that churches, or businesses, or individuals grant us the same rights in the same way.
In the example I provided above, the government would not be permitted to force that nightclub to admit anyone with a gun, the same way it couldn't force a church to perform a same-sex marriage.
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