""4. There are churches ready and willing to extend a welcome and perform marriages, so that homosexual couples may be both legally and spiritually joined in the same way as their heterosexual counterparts.

This is also true but they are in a minority.""

This is a nonsequitur Emma. I don't believe anyone is asking for all churches to perform same sex ceremonies, so what possible grounds can there be for refusing to allow ceremonies to be performed in that "minority" of churches?

All the coercion in this affair is on the anti side, as far as I can see.


""until there is a separation between state and religion in America, this is likely to remain a major obstacle to the equality that has been advocated by many people in this thread and elsewhere.""

I believe that there is already such a separation in the USA, in fact it is, I think, part of the Constitution. Of course, some Americans don't seem to know that, even some Presidents.

Don T.