I was talking with a coworker about homosexual marriage. Does it hurt me, he asked, if homosexuals are permitted to marry? The easy answer is no, it doesn't. While homosexuality is clearly a sin, so is abortion as birth control and any number of other quite legal activities. On that level it would seem that homosexual marriage should be legalized.

However, one may look at the issue from another angle. If homosexual marriage becomes the law of the land, how long will it be before churches are sued and forced by the courts to perform homosexual marriages? Sounds impossible, does it? Until recently I would have agreed. In light of the California supreme court's recent ruling that Catholic charities must include birth control coverage in their employee health benefit package, though, I think there is a real possibility that such a ruling could take place. This type of infringement of our freedom of religion is, I fear, destined to become more common, not less so. For this reason I believe thinking Christians must oppose the legalization of Homosexual marriage.