AMERICA - Religion and the Law, Gay Marriage

Religious practice or belief is an INDIVIDUAL's Constitutionally protected right.  It is NOT a right of ANY religious group to use the law to impose their beliefs on any other citizen.

"Faith and Morality Play Major Roles in Debate on Gay Marriage" PBS Newshour 3/28/2013

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SUMMARY:  Aspects of religion and morality have been used as the basis for arguments by both sides of the debate on same-sex marriage.  Ray Suarez talks with Michael Schuenemeyer, minister for the United Church of Christ, and Richard Langer, a minister with the Evangelical Free Church of America, to learn how they've approached the topic.

COMMENT:  The anti-gay side presented by Richard Langer in the context of Civil Rights is wrong.

There is no law that REQUIRES marriage to be preformed by any religion.  Religious organizations can continue to not perform gay marriages.

But religious organizations CANNOT prevent a state from performing gay marriages.