In a web
piece published today, Jim Antle looks at the direction the
gay marriage debate is taking. What's at stake? Thomas Peters
finds two clear examples of gay marriage infringing on
religious liberty -- one in the UK, and one in San Francisco.
Whatever your thoughts on the issue, the inevitable collision
between legalized gay marriage and religious freedom must be
taken into consideration. In both cases that Peters catalogues,
the tension is between Catholic adoption services, who refuse to
allow gay couples to adopt their charges, and state
anti-discrimination laws, which require that they must. This has
already played out in Massachusetts, where the Catholic Relief
Services responded by ending their adoption services instead of
compromising their principles.
