If you were forced to perform homosexual marriage to keep your tax-break, would you do it?
The recent Gay Marriage ruling is the result of a long-fought cultural battle. Many Christians and social conservatives (these two are not the same thing) are bitter combatants against homosexual activists and the rest of the United States in this political and social war.
With the lifting of the Gay Marriage ban in California, there may be enough momentum to lift the ban across the US. There is a theory that suggests that if this happens, churches will be forced to perform gay marriages - and if they don't, they may eventually lose their non-profit status. If they lose their non-profit status, will they still be able to afford to operate?
QUESTION: If you were forced to perform homosexual weddings to keep your tax-break, would you do it?
Personally I think that you are asking a loaded question. You want to make a slippery slope argument, but no country in the world where homosexual marriage is legal are churches required to perform homosexual marriage in order to retain tax exempt status.
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Comment by Adam S - May 28, 2008 @ 08:45 AM
I don’t think this would happen, but it would show the heart of the church. Who knows could be good, make us rely 100% on God. What would the church look like if it could no longer be a non-profit?
Comment by Corey - May 28, 2008 @ 01:30 PM
no
Comment by J. R. Miller - May 28, 2008 @ 06:01 PM
I would not perform gay weddings or do anything that I believe to be contrary to scriptural teaching.
A broader question would be: how many things do we do on a Sunday morning that have no basis in scripture, but are rooted in the tradition of men?
Comment by Neil Schori - May 28, 2008 @ 11:08 PM
No
Comment by Todd - May 30, 2008 @ 11:07 AM
Although this is not the primary argument in this article it is important to note that the underlying title about church and state unity. Since when has the goal been to create a unified church and state government, I hope that is not the goal of any Christian. Furthermore, Jesus said that we are supposed to render to Caesar not the other way around. And in Romans, Paul told us to avoid conforming to this world and its governments but to be submissive to them and practice in secret if necessary.
We have come a long way (at least in America) since those days when Christians were openly, physically persecuted. I think the trap we easily fall into is thinking that this country was founded to by Christians to be a Christian state, it was neither of those things.
Comment by Curtis Kiser - Jun 02, 2008 @ 10:18 AM