[PD/TD] Re: [CS-FSLUG] Activist Republican Judge Says CA Marriage Law Unconstitutional

[Timothy R. Butler]

>
> True, I suppose.  But if the government removes rights to a specific
> subset of the population, they must have a very good reason why.  I
> don't think, "It's the way we've always done it," cuts it.

	Well, if certain rights are, by definition given by religious 
institutions, then the government should not step in and provide them 
otherwise (I'm not sure what these are either, but they could 
conceivably exist). For example, the government has some regulation of 
ordination, but the government ought not to start ordaining people 
itself.

	-Tim

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