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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarriage is only a right if you believe in their god in bizarre wedding plan
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/31/marriage-only-for-christians/When Morgan Strong and Tamar Courtney contacted the county courthouse to seal their love for each other after six years together, they were directed to Roth. Roth refused to perform the ceremony at the courthouse and only agreed to marry the couple if they tied the knot at his church. A deal was struck and the cost and date were set. Strong and Courtney would go through the legal part of the ceremony at Roths church. Thats when the whole situation turned ugly.
Roth asked the couple about their religious beliefs and upon hearing that he would be performing a ceremony for an atheist and an agnostic, turned the couple away. Why? Because they didnt know where God was. Thats right, Roth refused to marry the couple out of sheer religious bigotry. Disappointed, Morgan and Courtney decided to discuss the situation with Roth and they kindly recorded the conversation.
NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)It wasn't accepting it. Pasted it into the body instead.
Lars39
(26,093 posts)He and the nitwit judge who appointed him need to be fired asap. Absolutely infuriating what he's been doing.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)He's supposed to perform civil ceremonies but has been forcing people to take on the added expense of marrying at his church.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)hunter
(38,264 posts)Couples have the right to have their relationships acknowledged and celebrated by both the legal system and the community.
In the bad old days, sure, affluent LBGT couples could have papers drawn up and defended by tiger lawyers that established a legal contract similar to marriage, but that's not the same as marriage.
And people who were not affluent, they were just out of luck -- neither the legal system or the community was obligated to recognize or protect the relationship and most often did not, sometimes going so far as to torment the couple, as when one member of the couple was ill and the hospital excluded the partner from visiting or participating in the patient's care, or a couple's shared wealth was taken away from a surviving spouse.
I have a Catholic marriage, but that exists on the other side of the wall between church and state. It's no business of yours. Simultaneously I enjoy the protections of a civil marriage, which is everbody's business and a very important civil right.
Denying LBGT couples this civil right is every bit as offensive as laws that denied "mixed race" couples marriage.
Marriage is a human right. The Libertarian view of marriage as some kind of ordinary contract is bullshit.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)but everyone knows a mixed marriage will not work.
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