How long before Church sued for refusing homosexual marriage?

[Fitswimmer]

Yet there have been successful legal actions because a photographer refused an assignment offered for a same-sex commitment party. Another situation was when a same-sex couple wanted to use a building owned by a church for their celebration. A woman that signed a contract to abide with the firmly held sexual beliefs of the school she was teaching at successfully took them to court for discrimination. A priest in Europe won when the Bishop fired him for religious teaching reasons. So I believe the time is already here for this to happen. It won’t take long.

I believe one of the cases you’re referring to is the Ocean Grove case which was about tax exempt status-which the Camp Meeting association gave up rather than have a gay marriage held in their pavilion.
Their exemption has been based on public access under Green Acres-which means that the pavilion must be available for general public access. Bottom line-they can’t have it both ways. They can’t profit off the general public and then deny people access at the same time. Interestingly, the Ocean Grove community has a fairly substantial gay population and they’ve lived in harmony there with the Methodists for years.
I tried to find a determination on the photographers case-it was heard in January 2008, but I wasn’t able get past the docket. It’s possible it hasn’t been decided yet. If I were running a business with weddings, I’d make very sure that if I didn’t want to participate in gay weddings it would be in the contract. As long as the service provided is not unique, there wouldn’t really be a case for discrimination.

I haven’t read the cases about the teacher, is that in the US? I signed a contract with a morals clause when I taught and I would have had a pretty hard time winning a case against them if I had violated it, so I’m wondering how they could be suing.

Of course, anyone can sue for anything-but it doesn’t mean that they have any hope of winning. They file the suit, people on both sides of the issue use it to rally the troops-and nobody notices later when the case finally goes to court.

 

[rpp]

This is only months or a few years away in Canada. Already people have been prosecuted simply for quoting scripture passages calling homosexual activity sinful. Many othersw have been investigated by the so-called “Human Rights Commission”, a kangaroo court if there ever was one.

I also see the Church begin sued, again probably in Canada first, for sexual discrimination because the Church will not ordain women priests. A few years ago, a Canadian parliamentarian mulled this over, but declined to introduce the legislation.