Did you know if gay marriage is legalized, their is a possibility of no separation of church and state?

Question

think about it, if a gay couple wants to get married at church that teaches against homosexuality, that church will lose its tax free expection because it did not follow that law...where is the seperations of church and state here? doesn't that mean the stae can make laws to control the church? where is the freedom of religion...the more rights liberals get the less rights people who have religious convictions have...

Answer 1

the truth is getting rid of any sign, symbol or action of God. A basic Godless society where individual rules over the majority. Welcome chaos.
Simple facts that are in preparation:
If marriage is redefined once, it will be done over and over. Churches refusing to acknowedge to avow this couples will be dismissed of the religious status, due to "political intervention." Churches will no longer be able to speak out against homosexuality, as this would affect the "minority" and discriminate. We will forced to return to underground churches where freedom no longer is dictated by religious choice, unless, of course, it believes in homosexuality.
Next step will be multiple partners (polygamists will want marriage changed to accomadate them), even the possibility of sodomists engaging for this piece of the pie. Chaos will reign.

Answer 2

This is ludicrous. Why would a church lose a tax exemption for refusing to marry a couple? It's not the goal to force priests to marry people they don't want to. It's the goal to allow same-sex couples to get married somewhere, and have that union recognized by the government as being every bit as valid as a heterosexual union. Separation of church and state is already broken because religious principles have been legislated, like the religious principle that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. Legalizing gay marriage will restore separation of church and state, not endanger it.

You have every bit as much religious freedom as you always have. Perhaps a bit more, thanks to the ACLU. What you don't have is the right to make that religion into law, or to force your beliefs on other people.

Answer 3

I think the problem is that we already don't have separation of church and state. Marriage is, by definition, a religious contract. Why does the state bother to offer marriage licenses at all?

How come I can't purchase alcohol on a Sunday in some states? Why aren't businesses allowed to be open 24 hours in some states?

Why do we have "In God We Trust" on our money?

The problem is not that those with religious convictions are getting less rights, it is that they've always had too many in-roads to the state to begin with. Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion.

The state needs to expunge the religious undercurrents that it currently keeps.

Just because a church holds itself to other standards does not mean that those who are not in the church have to follow those standards. For instance, the Catholic Church tells its followers not to use birth control, but it would be absolutely immoral for the religion-free (supposedly) government of the USA to follow that doctrine.

More recently, there was the announcement in the news that the government had approved a vaccine for cervical cancer for women and religious groups were upset because they said it would cause promiscutity. So, they want *more* women to get cervical cancer (and women that aren't of their religious faith too!) than to be able to be healthy? Obviously, that's what the separation of church and state is for, because the government is releasing the vaccine.

Once the chruch breaks its contract with its people and does evil like that, I don't think they deserve any sort of protection. And they certainly don't deserve tax exempt status.

Homosexual marriages are barely a scratch on the surface of the bad things that religions are all about.

Complete separation of church and state seems like a perfect idea to me.

Answer 4

Why in the world would gay people being married have anything to do with the rights of religions to practice as they wish? No one said that you have to perform a marriage ceremony for a gay couple if you are a leader in a religion that opposes it. What legalized gay marriage would ensure would be civil unions, like those performed by judges or notoraries.

I think that the government would leave it up to the religion to decide one whether to allow religious ceremonies. After all, it's a service that has to be paid for. People in the services business are allowed to deny service if it is of a religious nature--at least, I think they are. They should be, I think, although I also think they should learn to be a bit more tolerant. However, if a Christian doesn't want me in their store, that's fine. I don't want to spend my money there anyway. There's this thing called the internet, if nothing else. Personally, I've never understood gay people who stay Christian; I left Christianity because it seemed to discriminate against women; I would think gays would do the same.

Answer 5

The Catholic Church has a right to refuse marriage to a gay couple regardless of what any law says. Right there is the separation. I say, let gay people marry anywhere that accepts them. If a church will marry them, so be it. What's the stink about? Why would a religion denounce gay marriage and then go ahead and marry them anyway? Doesn't make sense.

Answer 6

The Constitution doesn't guarantee churches a tax exemption. How does revoking a PRIVILEGE (tax exemption) involve anything other than revoking a privilege churches don't deserve in the first place?

And, the only effect on separating church from state will be to make the divide even clearer by revoking the subsidy of tax exemptions.

Answer 7

Why do you think a gay couple would want to get married in a church that is opposed to gay marriage?
And by the way, the church does need some control. Think about how much money a large church generates, and think how much taxes on that money would be able to help fund school programs and such.
I think it is BS that churches are tax exempt.

Answer 8

I did not think about that, I have been just so sad over it anyway. But WOW.What is next, we live in a society of very little boundaries, we teach our children everything is okay. TV, movies, video games teach that violence and sexual activity is just the norm. With this new development we teach them to go against nature is except able.What will we be in 20 years? May God have mercy on us.
Thank you for your insight.
God bless
Grandma

Answer 9

I don't see the separation NOW. The U.S. Congress have Chaplains at over $100.000.00 per year apiece. They open their sessions with prayer. The supreme court has religious symbols all over the entrance. Where is the separation?

Answer 10

I disagree...churches don't HAVE to marry people.

Example: Mormons temples will only marry Mormons. Catholic churches will only marry Catholics.

Churches have the right to decide who they will respect and who they'll be ignorant jerks towards.