Reply #79: I don't think he minds the idea of a church choosing to marry any one.. [View All]

I think the "having to" thing may come from disinformation from "the pulpit". When I asked him if a "church" & their clergy (I used Unitarian and Wiccan as an example) chose to perform a ceremony of "marriage" between two gay men would he have a problem with that he said "no", that's their right. Then he went off again about churches "having to" again, I said but no ones trying to force them too... and at that point my beloved step-mother gave me a wink and a slight shake of her head and decided that was enough at the dinner table. (She's a life long Catholic and is more liberal then he is but then again she taught many years in a city public high school so I think she is more mellow... come to think of it I guess she had more impact on me then I thought. B-))