tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post7599429308155912633..comments2024-03-27T11:00:44.652-05:00Comments on Michael-In-Norfolk - Coming Out in Mid-Life: The Hypocrisy at the Center of the Christian Right’s Persecution ComplexMichael-in-Norfolkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06330888799107186550noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post-23115953065017565052015-07-05T23:37:31.499-05:002015-07-05T23:37:31.499-05:00"A religious conservative can go on vilifying..."A religious conservative can go on vilifying homosexuals if they want — the government has not taken away that right — but what they can’t do is deny them their equal rights, which in this case is the right to have their marriage recognized as legitimate."<br /><br /><br />Nor does "religious liberty" give practitioners whose religious beliefs preclude holding RELIGIOUS ceremonies for some people the right to prevent people of other beliefs, or of no belief, or of the same iodiosyncratic theologies from holding ceremonies that are civilly and religiously recognized marriages. Otherwise, Newt Gingrich, Robert Barr, Clarence Thomas, Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan, etc. would have been cohabitating civilly in sin as violators, broadly, of Catholic theology.EdAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00867807586210871787noreply@blogger.com