The New York State Catholic Conference, which is lobbying to stop the state Senate from voting on the marriage equality bill, argues that support for the bill as currently worded would constitute “a vote against religious liberty and against the very ministries and services that New Yorkers cannot do without.”
In a note posted to Facebook Thursday morning, the conference, which is the public policy arm of the Catholic Church in the state, stated what it believes is the “real agenda” behind the legislation as currently worded.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo submitted the Marriage Equality Act Tuesday with language for religious exemptions, specifically, to provide, parallel to the state’s existing human rights law, that religious institutions, as private entities, would not be required to solemnize same-sex weddings or to rent facilities such as catering halls in opposition to their beliefs.
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