Religious Organizations have already said no sort of exemptions will make them happy anyway, so…

exactly.

It isn’t about religious organizations at all. They already pretty much don’t have to do anything they don’t like. You could put in a clause that requires every gay couple to chant “we’re really not married” every time a priest walks by, and they still wouldn’t like it.

Their issue isn’t about them, it’s about us. They’re less concerned about what they have to do and totally focused on what we get to do. And all of the ‘exemptions’ are a smoke-screen. It’s an effort to change the subject: “Let’s not talk about couples who need marriage rights, let’s talk about Catholic adoption agencies.”

I say call their bluff.

Put in the religious organization exemptions to whatever will appear to the public to be excessively generous. They really won’t impact us much at all (other than perhaps some general slight inconvenience and perhaps a few isolated examples of real mistreatment).

And when they still oppose it, it will be obvious – to those few who still don’t get it – that the Catholic Bishops are lying to them and that being unable to convince people by preaching they are now attempting to dictate their dogma by law.

Let’s not fall into the trap of fighting on their terms. Who cares if they get adoption agency exemptions or whatever – we get marriage. And once we do have marriage equality, any time some religious organization discriminates, they will only look foolish, hostile, outdated and downright mean.

We win either way.

What a douchebag; I’m so glad Milwaukee got rid of Archdickhead Dolan…just sad that he wound up going where he could do some real damage to equal rights. I’ve got my fingers crossed, but I’m not forgiving him or the Catholic church for their hateful behavior.

I’m sorry but that should be a deal breaker. If we settle for it and then sue to overturn it later we’ll be falling for a trap that they are setting up to make us look like we’re attacking Christians and their religious freedom. This is a Trojan Horse that will come back to haunt us if we’re not smart enough to refuse it.