No, you wouldn't have to quit your job;Peggy wrote:He's not asking them to break the law, but not to cooperate with it, so to speak.
As an example, let's say you are a civil official who grants marriage licenses or marries people in civil services . . . you'd have to quit your job to avoid giving a gay couple a license or marrying them, regardless of what faith they were.
I'm still pondering the whole concept behind this, though. Seems a little extreme to me. It's one thing to say that Catholic homosexuals shouldn't get married, but something else again to apply this universally.
Ratzinger has always been rather grimly and unpleasantly rigid in his conservatism. I wonder what's next on his agenda. Probably nothing pleasant.
could refuse to give them a license and be fired.
I suppose that would be breaking the law.
Here it is extremely likely that Ratzinger is
doing what John Paul II would have done.
I don't think it's him personally, or,
really anybody personally--but a deeply
held religious and social belief, one
they feel is even warranted on
entirely secular grounds.
Also one they've thought through.
I don't agree with them, but I don't
think it's a matter of rigidity.
One of the grounds for their opposition
to the law, by the way, is that it violates the UN
charter concerning the rights of
children.
If one really considers the gay marriage
issue in depth, and investigates the
arguments against it...especially
in Europe, where it's already in place,
and there seems to be a good deal of
sociological research about
gay marriages (but I haven't followed it into
the journals; only seen synopses and
citations), well, it gets pretty interesting.
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
