re: #66 Gus 802

I can live with that and it’s often been argued before. A private religious institution is protected under the Establishment Clause (or the 1st Amendment). However, that still doesn’t seem to calm the nerves of many gay marriage’s religious opponents. One could in theory also open a gay chapel in which only gay marriages are performed.

Yes, I was careful to use the word ‘congregations’ as opposed to the more generic ‘churches’, etc.

It will be interesting to see if there will be legal challenges to those congregations who do choose to marry gays (as in the split of the Episcopalians, etc) or challenges from the gay community to congregations who choose not to marry gays.

The attempt to politicize religious marriage (for and against) will probably prove to be irresistible to many.