I guess its a bad day to be a atheist in Oklahoma, how would they even know who is a atheist and who isn't. Its not like a have Lutheran on my Driver's license.
Actually it would be impossible to get married in a courthouse under the proposed bill. The article states "by restricting the issuing of m… morearriage licenses to the clergy and not judges and court clerks, the bill would make it harder for same-sex marriages to take place."
Marriage would only be possible in churches, as marriages could only be officiated by priests and other members of the clergy. Court marriages would no longer be possible.
I seen some really evil people on Steve Wilkos. If you like that show, hit me up, and i can link some seriously disturbing television shows for entertainment purposes...
The clergy members would ask what denomination you are when you go to them to get married. It would be up to them to decide whether they would marry someone who is not of their faith. This could potentially make it harder for interfaith couples to get married as well, as some clergy members don't approve of mixed faith marriages (see The Shivah as an example).
In the past, none of this was a problem, as people just went to other places to find clergy members who would marry them, and if that failed they got married by a judge in a courthouse. Under the proposed bill, the second option is impossible, so if the first option failed, they'd be out of luck.
I'm all for letting clergy members decide who to marry based on their personal interpretations of their religious texts (that's part of freedom of religion), but the option to find an alternate way to get married must be available if someone is turned down, or at the very least civil unions must be provided (preferably defined as such so they were marriage in all but name so they would be recognized by all states and countries). Oklahoma doesn't have any legal definitions for civil unions, so civil unions can't be officiated in Oklahoma, and civil unions from other states aren't recognized. Under the proposed bill, if you are turned down to get married by clergy members for whatever reason, you wouldn't be able to get married (or get a civil union legal alternative) in Oklahoma at all.
I guess its a bad day to be a atheist in Oklahoma, how would they even know who is a atheist and who isn't. Its not like a have Lutheran on my Driver's license.
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We're going through rights for other sexualities and now it's going to be atheist rights, sigh, can't we all just have the same rights?
I guess its a bad day to be a atheist in Oklahoma, how would they even know who is a atheist and who isn't. Its not like a have Lutheran on my Driver's license.
At least the people on Springer aren't evil.
I seen some really evil people on Steve Wilkos. If you like that show, hit me up, and i can link some seriously disturbing television shows for entertainment purposes...
The clergy members would ask what denomination you are when you go to them to get married. It would be up to them to decide whether they would marry someone who is not of their faith. This could potentially make it harder for interfaith couples to get married as well, as some clergy members don't approve of mixed faith marriages (see The Shivah as an example).
In the past, none of this was a problem, as people just went to other places to find clergy members who would marry them, and if that failed they got married by a judge in a courthouse. Under the proposed bill, the second option is impossible, so if the first option failed, they'd be out of luck.
I'm all for letting clergy members decide who to marry based on their personal interpretations of their religious texts (that's part of freedom of religion), but the option to find an alternate way to get married must be available if someone is turned down, or at the very least civil unions must be provided (preferably defined as such so they were marriage in all but name so they would be recognized by all states and countries). Oklahoma doesn't have any legal definitions for civil unions, so civil unions can't be officiated in Oklahoma, and civil unions from other states aren't recognized. Under the proposed bill, if you are turned down to get married by clergy members for whatever reason, you wouldn't be able to get married (or get a civil union legal alternative) in Oklahoma at all.