Comments on: A Guide to Gay Wedding Discrimination

By: boobookittyf@ck

boobookittyf@ck — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:36:15 +0000

guess no one remembers the idiot last year that tried to sue a print shop for daring to print a bible that called homosexuality an abomination.
Why have these exemptions? Because the gays in question are less interested in marriage, and more interested in "being the first", or winning $$$ in a lawsuit. You can always count on the greed and stupidity of people, they are one of the few truly universal qualities of our species.

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By: Rev. Starlene Burns

Rev. Starlene Burns — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:10:13 +0000

30 days and counting. Civil rights change for same sex couples in DC. I pray that nothing stops this from happening. Discrimination needs to end.

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We’re Number 1 In Gay Households - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:41:58 +0000

[...] The Economist notes that the very action of legalizing same-sex marriages or civil unions tends to encourage coupling up. “Those states where gay marriage is legal or where same-sex partnerships are recognised have a higher proportion of same-sex couples than the national average of 4.7,” says the magazine. If a state recognizes same-sex coupledom, it either inspires an influx of out-of-state gays, or encourages locals to come out as couples. Which means that if D.C.’s gay marriage legislation is passed, our fair city may stand to get even gayer. Take that, haters. [...]

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By: October

October — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:04:42 +0000

Hi Cowcharge,

a lady called Rosa Parks refused to obay a bus driver, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

She was "delusional enough" (to re-use your words) to think she should be able to sit where ever she wanted in this bus. Maybe it's time for an equally delusional gay couple to stand up for their rights, too- even if or because their church preaches homophobia from the pulpit.

Rosa Parks could have easily made way for that white passanger in 1955, but she didn't and this changed the world we live in today for the better.

By: gay GU grad who will marry elsewhere

gay GU grad who will marry elsewhere — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:57:51 +0000

Churches have every right to follow the tenants of their faith, but the Catholic Church picks and chooses the targets for its animous and outrage. Catholic teaching doesn't accept divorce and re-marriage. Yet Catholics for decades have lived in a country where divorce is common, without the Church collapsing. Many Catholics choose to ignore Church teaching and get civil divorces. But Catholic Charities doesn't refuse to provide spousal benefits to the spouses of its divorced and re-married employees. The organization also doesn't refuse adoption services to divorced and re-married Catholics. The Catholic Church's inconsistency makes their hostility toward gays more striking. Of course, most DC residents don't realize that gays aren't the only targets of Catholic discrimination. While accepting public dollars to fund its activities, Catholic Charities also refuses to provide adoption services to Jews, Muslims, agnostics and atheists. Such policies blatantly violate DC's human rights laws and show a Church that hypocritically howls for its religious views to be followed while it tramples on the religious beliefs of others. Catholic Charities (and its wildly overpaid CEO) should stop accepting public dollars or start following the law.

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:22 +0000

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By: Reid

Reid — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:31:31 +0000

Cowcharge,
To the extent you bother to come back a read comments, just understand that you seem to have been misinformed about the legislation. Just re-read the post; churches are not going to be forced to host gay weddings. This whole post is about how far that exemption reaches, namely that they don't have to rent out their bibles or candles or whatever either. They don't even have to rent out a meeting hall if it's close enough to the church.

As written, this is still a huge license to discriminate. For the church to cry about their religious rights/rites is pathetic. Besides, their central complaint seems to stem from what sort of benefits they'll have to extend to their employees. Of course nothing in this legislation changes anything on that end. Right now gay employees of the Catholic church can go to Connecticut or Iowa and get married and under District law, they're married. Whatever benefits that the church feels to compelled to offer against their bigoted, sorry, religious convictions they are already compelled to offer.

This is nothing other than a bigoted organization that is losing a fight and is willing to sacrifice the interests of the poor and sick to get what it wants. Of course once you take out from the bible the parts about helping the poor and the sick, you're left with a pretty thin pamphlet.

By: elaygee

elaygee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:36 +0000

Churches who wish to discriminate have every right to, BUT, they should have their tax exempt status removed and start paying taxes. If they will not serve all tax paying citizens equally, they should not get a free ticket on taxes.

By: Rev. Starlene Burns

Rev. Starlene Burns — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:28:49 +0000

We are focusing on the views of the church right now, when in fact a lot of vendors discriminate against same sex couples. And discrimination will be only end when change is constant. This too shall past and same sex couples will be treated equally. However, there should be no laws protecting anyone from discrimination lawsuits.

By: Cowcharge

Cowcharge — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:50:26 +0000

This is silly. I don't see how or why church exemptions should matter to anyone. If the engaged couple are not part of the church that doesn't want to marry them, why the hell would they care that the church doesn't want to marry them? Are Satanists offended that they can't get married in a Catholic church? Are they delusional enough to expect to be able to? And if the couple IS part of that church, how can they reconcile having religious beliefs that brand themselves as less than human in the first place? This sounds like militant people who just want to force people to accomodate them in order to rub their noses in it, and to take delight in offending them. If the bill passes, there will be no shortage of people willing to marry them. Trying to force a church that disapproves of same-sex marriage to marry a same-sex couple is just as bad as the church trying to force its gay bans on people who don't subscribe to their particular mythology. And before the Bible-thumping homophobe comments start, for the record, I voted FOR same-sex marriage in my state, and barring weddings and funerals, I haven't set foot in a church since I was 18. So just do your best to win your rights, and stop trying to rub people's noses in it. You'll gain a lot more support that way.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:54:21 +0000

The simple solution to this is that there should be no exception at all. As the Archdiocese of Washington has demonstrated many religious groups are not interested in negotiating in good faith they are interested in stopping the legislation completely and, if they can't do that, preserving their "right" to discriminate and the council should not play into their hands. Freedom of religion doesn't mean religious institutions are above the law it simply means the law can't favor one faith over other (or no) religions and it certainly does not exempt religious organizations from anti-discrimination laws.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:30 +0000

Great article.

But very, very sad.

Sad that people who present themselves as 'people of god' are TRULY anything but.

Sad that these 'people of god' have been too damaged by religion to see the error of their ways.

I sincerely hope that one day they will seek the truth in god and ask god to forgive them for the damage and destruction that these 'people of god' have DIRECTLY caused to innocent people's lives.

God will forgive them.

And so will we.