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Florida Republican pushing bill to stop churches being made to marry gay couples nobody needs
A Republican state lawmaker in Florida is pushing a bill to protect churches from having to marry gay couples – something he freely admits they are already protected from having to do.
But Representative Scott Plakon says nobody can predict the future so is pressing ahead with the bill anyway, saying it will act as another layer of protection for churches – kind of like putting on a second condom.
‘This extra layer of protection can do no harm, and it might do some good,’ Plakon told the Orlando Sentinel.
However LGBTI rights group Equality Florida say the bill is pointless and unneeded and has offered to pay the legal bills of any church sued for not performing gay marriages.
‘We know that’s not going to happen,’ Equality Florida’s Carlos Guillermo-Smith said.
‘This is an imagined problem.’
Florida’s state House Civil Justice Committee approved the bill on Wednesday in a vote of 9-4, split along party lines, meaning the bill will actually come up for a full vote in the house.
A group of pastors attended the committee meeting, some to support it and some to speak against it, though most appeared to know they were already protected from having to marry gay couples against their will by the US Constitution.
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