Obama: I won’t make churches conduct gay marriages
President Obama, in his statement hailing the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, promised that he wouldn’t try to force religious institutions to conduct gay marriages.
“On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation’s commitment to religious freedom is also vital,” Obama said. “How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision — which applies only to civil marriages — changes that.”
Here’s guessing that the Roman Catholics and other religious groups that are in the midst of fighting the contraception mandate are skeptical of that pledge.
>>> Can this be believed? How about the promises broken relative to the HHS mandate, what about trying to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortion, what about the myriad of federal roadblocks being thrown headlong at military chaplains, especially if they happen to be Christian, more specifically Catholic.
This is far from over.
“On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation’s commitment to religious freedom is also vital,” Obama said. “How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision — which applies only to civil marriages — changes that.”
Here’s guessing that the Roman Catholics and other religious groups that are in the midst of fighting the contraception mandate are skeptical of that pledge.
>>> Can this be believed? How about the promises broken relative to the HHS mandate, what about trying to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortion, what about the myriad of federal roadblocks being thrown headlong at military chaplains, especially if they happen to be Christian, more specifically Catholic.
This is far from over.
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