I live in a country where gay marriage is legal and common and has been since 2001. Recently we got a new cabinet, and one of the members of the cabinet is a party that very much profiles itself as a Christian party. Now a discussion has burst loose over so called "refusal civil servants", civil servants who refuse to marry gays and call upon the moral problems it would cause them, usually because of the fact that their religion prohibits, frowns upon or otherwise judges active homosexuality as bad.
Now there are roughly two sides: the people who say that a civil servant is a servant of the law and should therefore marry anyone as long as it is not against the law for those persons to marry, and the people who say that everybody is entitled to his or her own ideas about morality and homosexuality and no civil servant should be "forced" to conduct marriages against their own believes.
What do you think? (any other opinions are welcome too, of course)
2007-04-05
02:00:49
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