re: #73 researchok

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.

There have already been splits in the churches, as you point out, and will probably be more. Committment ceremonies opened a lot of cracks between factions.