| Legalize it.
Churches should not be obligated to perform homosexual marriage or to honor it in their religious ideology the same way that they honor hetero marriage.
But the church should be separate from the government. And, in a place that claims freedom of religion, no one church or type of church has the right to dominate the laws in such a way. There are many many many kinds of churches. Some churches, such as Unitarian churches, would probably perform gay marriages. Obviously, many Christian / Catholic churches would not. The government should not favor the beliefs of any religion just because it is the belief of a religion, especially not over the beliefs of other religions. So the government should not forbid homosexual marriage to churches that will perform it.
Everyone should always have the right to their own opinion on whether the homosexual marriages were frowned or smiled upon by God, and whether the churches performing them are truly holy or not, but the government doesn't belong in the fray making rules against "abominations" that are defined as such only by religious ideologies, not science or ethics. |