A court in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has ruled that a marriage commissioner may not refuse to perform homosexual "wedding" ceremonies.
Earlier this month, the Queen's Bench in Saskatchewan upheld the Human Rights Commission's ruling that a government marriage commissioner illegally discriminated against a homosexual man by refusing to perform a marriage ceremony for him. That commissioner had cited religious objections to performing same-sex "marriages." Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel says the problem is not confined to Canada -- and argues that the same thing is coming to the U.S. when homosexual marriage is legalized. As he points out, when Vermont legalized civil unions, clerks who perform marriage ceremonies were forced to choose between their faith and their careers. "That's why this, I believe, is going to be the biggest threat to our religious liberty in our near future," the Christian attorney remarks. "We are facing a clash of worldviews; a collision between the same-sex agenda and a moral and religious worldview. Those two are incompatible in these kinds of conflicts. If we go down this road of same-sex unions, [it] will continue to escalate." The attorney notes that pending "hate crimes" legislation sets a standard on a federal level for special consideration for homosexuals, putting it on the same plane as the color of a person's skin. Just as it would be illegal to refuse to marry people on the basis of ethnicity, he fears it could be the same on the basis of sexual orientation.
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