New Jersey Priests forced to... Nothing...

[Ian David]

Friday, January 12, 2007

Priests Forced to...Nothing

The shocking word from New Jersey is that nothing much has changed for ministers, priests, rabbis and other clerics. Following the legalization of same-sex civil unions, religious types now have one additional option in solemnizing marriages recognized by the Garden State -- they can, should they consent, perform such ceremonies for homosexual couples.

It is even worth writing about because the state attorney general iterated that this was an option for them, and not a requirement. Likewise, civil servants do not have the option of refusing; it is part of their job.

Despite the panic-mongering asserting that legalizing civil unions or same-sex marriages would bring enforced endorsement of such abominations to their sects, it is not so. It is not so in New Jersey. It is not so in Connecticut. It is not so in Vermont. It is not so in Massachusetts. It is not so in Canada.

The AP reminds us that as of February 19th, Jersey homosexual couples can apply for marriage licenses. After a three-day waiting period, they can have their union solemnized by a public official, like a justice of the peace, or any recognized cleric.

You would think at some point, the anti-gay/anti-same-sex-marriage folk would be ashamed to lie so blatantly. Not yet. No matter how many times their prophesies of doom and pagan slavery fail, they keep at it.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/priests-forced-tonothing.html

[ck4829]

1. But... but... but... We were told that society itself would fall into chaos because of this!

Why would the RW'ers lie to us?

[Ian David]

2. Societies will crumble! Rivers will run with blood! Nazi's will once again ride on dinosaurs!!"

"If gays get married, the institution of marriage will be destroyed! Societies will crumble! Rivers will run with blood! Nazi's will once again ride on dinosaurs!!" Princess Clara, --Drawn Together

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. "Lions will lay down with lambs! MASS HYSTERIA!"

:rofl:

[TlalocW]

5. Even worse!

Dr Ray Stantz:
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler:
Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore:
The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman:
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

TlalocW

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Just as clergy have ALWAYS had such discretion

Clergy have always had the discretion to refuse to conduct a marriage when such a marriage violates their religious doctrine. It is perfectly legal for clergy to refuse to marry someone who's been divorced, or someone who is of a different religion, or someone who has not attended religious instruction or counseling and neither true equal marriage nor the faudulent "civil unions" will change that. But to admit that might bring them face-to-face with other willful deceipts, and their faith probably would not survive intact.