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Rhode Island Marriage Debate Brings Out The Usual Suspects

By ADF Alliance Alert

LezGetReal (A Gay Girl's View on the World): "Of course, Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defense Fund echoed those concerns, but when confronted with the fact that the bill prevents churches from being forced to marry couples that they do not want to, Nimocks fell into the usual run of how he was upset over the fact that it would not protect individuals from discrimination. He used the example of marriage counselors who refuse to work with same-sex couples. He said ?The religious exemption provided is wholly inadequate.? Of course, in Iowa they tried that and it got pointed out that the religious exemption could end up hurting just about every single group out there from different races and religions to LGBT Americans. When and if this is addressed, the odds on are that he will find some other excuse. Perhaps railing against robosexual marriage?"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).