Well within the right of ANY religious body to adhere to whatever their rules are and suffer whatever legal or financial repercussion comes with it. The thing is, there are quite a few financial benefits to churches here. Gay lobby is not made up of idiots (the opposite actually) and they are just playing a game of chicken with certain religious groups and see if they buckle once money gets involved. Most groups surely will,eventually.
I'd be interested in the tactics that gay lobby is using in countries where religious organizations don't enjoy tax exemptions.
Gays are using the laws on the books in the United States Code,and the Amendments that ironically were either used or created when non Protestant groups were fighting against discrimination against the religious mainstream of America.
Constitution is the framework for the country but the nuts and bolts of the law are the U.S.C. and the Amendments to the Constitution.
