Marriage Equality & Religion: The Massachusetts Experience

One of the most dominant myths used by forces opposed to marriage equality is that allowing same-sex couples to marry would somehow negatively affect religious institutions or apply restrictions to their freedom to worship as they choose.

Although this myth is patently false, that has not stopped some opponents from using the claim to lead people to believe their religious freedom is in danger. Fortunately, in New York, we do not need to speculate on how religious institutions, spiritual life and the freedom to worship will be affected if the state passes a law allowing same-sex couples to marry. New York needs only to look to our neighbor to the east, Massachusetts — where marriages for same-sex couples have been legal since 2004 — to see that the worries about such a law negatively impacting people of faith have been unfounded.

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[Onlygodknows890]

Are you trying to compare two consenting adults wanting to married with beastiality and child molestation?They are two adults and they should be able to marry...children cannot consent to marriage and animals cannot consent to marriage...

[Colfaxdruggie]

does anybody know, after Loving v Virginia, were churches allowed to reject interracial marriages too? And if they were, are they still allowed to do today? What about inter-religious marriages?

BTW, im WAYYY marriage equality, I just want to know some facts...

[brianh406]

Where do you think Gay people get the majority of their children???

From FAILED heterosexual parents.

[brianh406]

The title of this video is a Oxymoron:

Equality & Religion two words that can not go together.

Religion takes the individual and puts the individual into a group, If an individual does not correlate with the group they are a outcast, therefore the devil and so on.

[commodorefan2]

@Colfaxdruggie

Churches can accept and reject any marriage they want. That was the logic used in Canada when the Civil Marriage Act was passed in 2005. I don't know that they did back then, because it was a Jim Crow law, but other than that, I think they could.

[Boudiga]

@skatejohn6 Then why have studies found that the majority of child molesters are heterosexual men? And plenty of xian adoption agencies had to close back in the 1970s when they refused to adopt children to couples of different races. Its call progress and religion doesn't get special treatment any more than state agencies!

[skatejohn6]

The myth is that likes can be married. The myth is also that homos will leave them unmolested; they have already broken the promise when they forced Christian adoption orgs. to place children with queers or close their doors.

[Perscriptions]

@dhood999 I see. Are you serious? By the way, where are you from?

[dhood999]

@Perscriptions - If you don't believe in the God of the Bible (the ONLY true and living God) then you will suffer from a reprobate mind. It will be given over to vanity and held under the bondage of corruption. God who created all things and is infinite in His wisdom, is the only source of what we should believe. If we depart from God's way we walk a path of destruction.

[Perscriptions]

@dhood999 And what if you don't believe in god. Neither the Christian god nor the one of any other religion?

[dhood999]

@Perscriptions - you can get quite a few people to say things favorable to same-sex marriage, however it does not matter what they say. The only authority worth consulting is the word of God. Please that suffer from this form of wickedness need to cry out mightily to God to save them that they may enter into a normal heterosexual relationship.

[Perscriptions]

@dhood999 What did the people in this video say? How was the experience with marriage equality?