03-28-2013, 07:51 PM
$tevie wrote:
I'm unclear on how I feel about what I'm going to say, but it seems like everyone is all for letting individual churches refuse to marry gays but find it outrageous if individual churches refuse to marry interracial couples. I think I am of the opinion that, as wrong as it feels, churches should be allowed to be bigots because of the separation of church and state.
Just because people are all for letting churches do what they want does not mean that those same people approve of what the churches do. I think those churches are run by bigots in either case. There's no law against bigots, but there is a law (the constitution) that doesn't allow church bigotry to be codified as law.