Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
Apparently, this ruling (GAS AND DUBOIS v. FRANCE) is the one PVC intended. I had to use Google Translate because I can't read French very well (or quickly); but I haven't been able to find anything in the ruling that suggests that churches can't refuse to hold ceremonies for gay couples.

In the Daily mail:


Except that I'm not seeing where such a thing is implied, at all. Maybe it has something to do with the UK's idiosyncracies in regards to marriage procedures and the state-church relationship in general that I'm not particulary familiar with.
Well, for one thing, any citizen of the UK has the automatic right to Church wedding and burial, and christening but that's less an issue. Individual Vicars can get tetchy about non-communicants but you just wave the Canon and Statute under their noses and they'll wilt.

If Gay people can have actual wedding ceremonies you can't justify denying them a Church wedding if it's available to anyone else.

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/u...agemeasure.pdf

Note the complete lack of "man" or "woman" because they are assumed - but not there stipulated.

The worst part of this is that Parliament can legislate for the Church.