SSM AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Bonnie Blacklock replies to Joshua Jasper and Maggie Gallagher

[Bonnie Blacklock is a former attorney and a home-schooling mother of five.]

Joshua Jasper says that "The fears of churches being forced to perform same-sex marriages . . . are simply untrue. Churches can perform whatever marriages they want." Maggie agrees that "it is unlikely that churches will be forced to marry same-sex couples," but then goes on to predict that schools teaching that marriage is the union of a man and a woman may lose their accreditation and tax exempt status.

I'm wondering why churches wouldn't lose their tax-exempt status as well. Excluding unbelievers is one thing; excluding on the basis of a protected status might be quite another. I've looked around for cases in which churches refused to marry people of different races and haven't found any, but I find it hard to believe they'd get away with it, any more than Bob Jones University got away with its ban on interracial dating. If homosexuality comes to be treated like race for equal protection purposes, would churches really get a pass?

posted by Eve at 1:13 PM VOTE

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