Gonna take time folks. But all of this, especially the “The denomination already allows ministers to bless same-sex unions, but the ceremonies can’t mimic marriage ceremonies.” is big time progress. Ultimately, we’ll have most of the Jewish Reform and conservatives, UU, MCC, UCC, Episcopal, Evang. Lutherans, Presbyterians on the side of Justice in one form or another.

And the Catholic monstosity in Rome (lots of Cath churches support gay people quietly), the Mormons, and the worst of the worst – the southern baptists and their fascist non-denominational christian ilk will be the talk of the town. While hopefully their membership will decline, decline decline.

People are free to choose who marries and them and where. A justice of the peace, mayor and/or others authorized and empowered by the laws of the local state works for some. A church, synagogue, etc is preferred by others but not necessary.

To do otherwise is to FURTHER entangle the State in Church-State relations. I don’t think the Catholics and the Mormons want to see SECULAR laws regulating THEIR *other* “sacraments.”

Although … *I’d* vote for a law barring Mormons from posthumously baptizing the ancestors of people now living who DON’T want them posthumously baptized, like Jews who died in the Holocaust. That is CREEPY, not to mention a slap in the FACE to observant, believing Jews.