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Originally Posted by skins
Thats definately a tough one. Many churches screen who is allowed to be married in their building. This may not be limited to sexual preference, it also includes religious backgrounds. I'm not sure if a catholic priest would be excited about a mormon couple being married in his church, or vise versa. To them, it's a holy place for sacred events, so they dont want things that contradict their beliefs happening inside. Is it discriminatory or is it your right to religious freedom of choice? I don't know either.
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That's a good point. I know of churches that refused to marry someone because they engaged in pre-marital sex and didn't satisfy the church's requirement of obstaining for some arbitrary period of time.
Mind you those are still choices a person makes (choose to be Catholic or Mormon).
I agree not an easy question, I just wanted some idea of what reasoning a church would use to rationalize the position of on one hand supporting not allowing churches to refuse a marriage based on race, but on the other hand supporting allowing a church to refuse a marriage based on sexual preference. I guess the reasoning would be one is a sin and the other isn't, but things that are deemed sins seem to change over time so it's bascially arbitrary.