Saw this column by Rod Dreher last week on the Dallas Morning News website (registration required).
Gay marriage: Unaccountable courts just intensify culture wars
Here's a key paragraph, a response to those who seem to think the Christian voice should be ignored because it represents the so-called "religious right":
I don't believe 60 percent of my countrymen are Bible-thumping rednecks. But even if they were, they still are American citizens who deserve a say in how they will be governed and how we as a society will live.
I've read many columnists who seem to think that same-sex "marriages" should be allowed in the civil arena while allowing churches to maintain their own standards. I don't think such an arrangement would be workable given today's PC culture. There is the issue of how "tolerance" has been redefined to mean "enthusiastic approval" by the activists. Churches that have stricter standards than civil law will be marginalized as intolerant bigots, be sued on equal-employment and related issues, lose money to legal expenses, and may well lose their tax-exempt status.
Posted by joelfuhrmann at March 7, 2004 09:24 PM