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appleannie1943

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Mon Jan 29, 2018, 11:14 AM Jan 2018

Missouri Bill Would Restrict Marriage To People Of Faith [View all]

The bill would define marriage as being a union that takes place only in religious institutions.

Any marriages that were to take place outside of the church, for example in a registry office, would only be recognised as “domestic unions.”

Sponsors of the bill say that the change in definition would work to protect churches and businesses against “gay encroachment.”


Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/01/missouri-bill-restrict-marriage-people-faith/#6pzzoDHskgAdKVxt.99

There was a time when our SC would have said this is unconstitutional. I am not so sure that would be the case now.

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