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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
i still don't udnerstand why they had to put it in writing that religious institutions would not be compelled to perform same-sex marriages? Religious institutions are currently not compelled to perform heterosexual unions. They can and DO refuse to perform marriages for heterosexual couples all the time for any number of reasons. Why is that all of a sudden they feel the government would force them to perform same-sex marriages?
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You don't understand this because you're Canadian, and you probably aren't taught about our Bill of Rights.
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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