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Venkman · 07-01-2008, 05:08 PM

http://article.nationalreview.com/pr...VhY2UyZTE0OWY=

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What about the next step: “Could churches in time risk their tax-exempt status by refusing to marry gays?”

Here’s the official answer from a leading gay paper, “That remains to be seen and will likely result in a steady stream of court battles.” Are those the same courts that decided same-sex marriage is a constitutional right?

This week National Public Radio similarly highlighted the coming religious-liberty conflicts, opening with a remarkably frank and open admission of how serious the implications are: “As gay couples in California head to the courthouse starting Monday to get legally married, there are signs of a coming storm” — as NPR put it in their written version — “Two titanic legal principles are crashing on the steps of the church, synagogue and mosque: equal treatment for same-sex couples on the one hand, and the freedom to exercise religious beliefs on the other.”

“The collision that will play out over the next few years will be filled with pathos on both sides,” NPR says. But the story also acknowledges: “So far, the religious groups are losing.”

myboynoah · 07-01-2008, 05:11 PM

How's that job as an auto mechanic working out?

UteStar · 07-01-2008, 05:29 PM

Another consequence of legalizing gay marriage, or at least from what I have learned on cougarboard, is that men will marry hamsters or goldfish sometime down the road.

Snowcat · 07-01-2008, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by UteStar

Another consequence of legalizing gay marriage, or at least from what I have learned on cougarboard, is that men will marry hamsters or goldfish sometime down the road.

Both preferable to your avatar.

TripletDaddy · 07-01-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by myboynoah

How's that job as an auto mechanic working out?

That's awesome!

I am going to use that sometime.

07-01-2008, 05:11 PM	#2
myboynoah Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Memphis freakin' Tennessee!!!!! Posts: 4,530	How's that job as an auto mechanic working out? __________________ Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!! Religion rises inevitably from our apprehension of our own death. To give meaning to meaninglessness is the endless quest of all religion. When death becomes the center of our consciousness, then religion authentically begins. Of all religions that I know, the one that most vehemently and persuasively defies and denies the reality of death is the original Mormonism of the Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Joseph Smith.

07-01-2008, 05:29 PM	#3
UteStar Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,817	Another consequence of legalizing gay marriage, or at least from what I have learned on cougarboard, is that men will marry hamsters or goldfish sometime down the road. __________________ UteStar's words to live by: "I'm not about play-play, I'm really about business." Goatnapper: "UteStar is the only one who is not scum."