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Old 26-07-2012, 07:49 PM #1
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I don't think churches will be forced into doing gay marriages, the main reason that's such an issue here is because the CofE is still connected with the State and is seen as conducting marriages on behalf of it. There are some churches who actually do want to marry gay people though, and like Niall said there are gay Christians. Sure calling it a marriage might be more symbolic than anything but so what, isn't marriage meant to be a symbolic thing anyway
Of course they won't be forced into doing gay marriage. As Livia said, if you're going to dabble into equality, if you want to force the church into gay marriage, you'll have to do it with all other religious groups and that simply won't happen.

Religion in general is based on bigotry and downright wicked nonsense. If I was gay I wouldn't choose to be part of a group that wouldn't accept me based on a small part of who I am.
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