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August 26, 2010
California Passes Bill to Protect Clergy from Being Forced to Perform Gay Marriages
This California legislation has been tossed around since January, when we first discussed it. The idea is both to provide protection to clergy from being forced to perform gay marriages and to ensure that churches in California cannot be deprived of tax-exempt status for failing to perform gay marriages.
It passed. But this portion of the article makes me think I'm on Bizarro World:
[Mark] Leno, a gay Democrat from San Francisco, defended the measure when it was opposed by Sen. Roy Ashburn, an openly gay Republican from Bakersfield.
Ashburn objected that the bill defines same-sex marriages as civil relationships, which he says puts them in a lesser class than heterosexual marriages.
Through the rabbit hole, man.
posted by Gabriel Malor at
10:59 PM
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