[The Urban Sombrero]

The purview and charter of the Church is to indict sin in all forms, and that would certainly include the sin of homosexuality as, God did in fact destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for that very sin. The Church indicts sin but offers the truth about salvation as the only remedy. God then, will judge all who reject so great a salvation, damning them to eternal separation from Himself. We the Church indict, God judges. The rest of you post is an example of liberal rationalizations and compromise where none exist, as I see it.

"The Church" certainly is free in this nation to proclaim what it believes. What it is not free to do is to dictate to the State what rights the civil authority may grant and which ones they must not recognize. That isn't liberal, friend. That's Constitutional democracy. Of course, "the Church" may compete in the markstplace of ideas and images for the hearts and minds of people. Nobody is dictating to you that you must embrace gay marriage as not sinful. But, you wish, not simply to proclaim that it is sinful, but to encode its denial to citizens so inclined, and, thereby, violate essential liberty.