Religious coalition files brief to end DOMA

[cbayer]

http://www.examiner.com/article/religious-coalition-files-brief-to-end-doma



A coalition of religious organizations has joined to help challenge the Defense of Marriage Act in court, the Unitarian Universalist Association said Friday.

Section 3 of the law reads: “In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”

There are no valid constitutional arguments against same-sex marriage, the religious coalition said. The arguments represent difference of opinions and belief systems, it said.

“Religious understandings of marriage differ and must, pursuant to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, remain separate from civil law in order to guard religious liberty for all,” the group said in its legal filing.

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[longship]

1. Wow! Very cool! nt

[pinto]

2. Great, clear statements, imo.

There are no valid constitutional arguments against same-sex marriage; “Religious understandings of marriage differ and must, pursuant to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, remain separate from civil law in order to guard religious liberty for all”

[skepticscott]

3. Let's not forget

that if it hadn't been for deeply and sincerely religious people, DOMA would never have been passed, or even proposed, in the first place.

[2ndAmForComputers]

5. That is factually correct.

An inconvenient truth. (Apologies to Al Gore.)

[Plantaganet]

6. n/t

[skepticscott]

7. Thanks!

It does make me wonder, though, if all of the ignorophiles here are curious what you're clapping about.

[Plantaganet]

8. They know.

But, just to drive the point home, an equivalent headline would be:

"BP Takes Active Role in Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup."

[edhopper]

4. Good for them.

[cleanhippie]

9. Nice to see some sects of religion starting to catch up to the rest of us.

Maybe they are beginning to see that the "common ground" is where we were already standing.