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Could the real motive behind homosexual
marriage be to coerce churches into accepting their version
of
marriage?
According to the Daily Signal, a
digital publication connected to The Heritage Foundation, “a case
has arisen in Idaho, where city officials have told ordained
ministers they have to celebrate same-sex weddings or face fines and
jail time.
“The Idaho case involves Donald and
Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, who run Hitching Post Wedding
Chapel. Officials from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, told the couple that
because the city has a non-discrimination statute that includes
sexual orientation and gender identity, and because the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Idaho’s constitutional
amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the
couple would have to officiate at same-sex weddings in their own
chapel.
The non-discrimination statute applies
to all “public accommodations,” and the city views the chapel as
a public accommodation.
On Friday, a same-sex couple asked to
be married by the Knapps, and the Knapps politely declined. The
Knapps now face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they
decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.
A week of honoring their faith and
declining to perform the ceremony could cost the couple three and a
half years in jail and $7,000 in fines.
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