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Originally Posted by Withano

Probably mostly to do with equal rights, anti-discrimination, and people wanting themselves/their friends/their family to marry before the God they were raised with though. What an oddly simplistic take on a serious issue.

I understand that to a point and certainly don't agree with religious business owners etc discriminating against people in "the real world" but religions by their very nature discriminate in order to follow whatever their religions rules are. Like already stated Livia couldn't get married in a synagogue because her husband wasn't Jewish, my mother couldn't get remarried in the Church because she was divorced, women aren't allowed become Priests which would be blatant sexism in the "real world" etc. So imo, a church shouldn't be forced on this one issue by government because if they're forced on this one thing then they should be forced on all of them and not be allowed to discriminate against anyone over anything and then they wouldn't have any exclusive rules anymore and would not really be that religion anymore.

I do however think that if it's a big issue for gay people they are well within their rights to put pressure on their religions themselves to try and get some reformation on the issue