A federal judge has ruled that New Jersey officials can continue an investigation into whether a Methodist group violated the rights of two lesbian couples when it refused to rent a seaside pavilion for their civil union ceremonies.
U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association as a pre-emptive strike. The association claimed its constitutional rights would be violated were it forced to allow civil unions, which conflict with Methodist doctrine, to be performed at the pavilion in Ocean Grove, N.J.
When I had listened to this story in radio reports I thought they were referring to the large tabernacle at Ocean Grove, which is distinctly religious. I was wrong. This pavilion is more of a shelter along the boardwalk for people to sit in the shade. Perhaps that makes the issue a little more nebulous than I had at first thought. Stretching an environmental agreement for public access and recreation into the religious realm is a bit of a legal stretch, tho. I can’t but help feeling the women who want to tie the knot there are using it as a political wedge against the Methodists. Lots of families and kids frequent the compound in the summer.
It is a political wedge. And the agendites using it (here a specific couple are the particular agendites, but I mean those promoting furtherance of the special satus of gays) intend to do this everywhere on the premise that their “rights” supercede all others. One merely sees in this the future of coerced belief intended by the agendites.
The tolerance tyranny advances unabated. Liberals don’t care what anyone does, so long as it’s compulsory.
I repeat what I said on another entry. Some people are getting very “sue happy”.