It's going to be okay! Obama PROMISES churches won't have to perform gay weddings...

President Obama made comments Wednesday, praising the Supreme Court Decision that redefines marriage and permits self-proclaimed homosexuals to marry. In addition, he pledged that churches would not have to conduct gay weddings.

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Naturally Catholics and other Christians are skeptical. Just as Obama pledged that they would have no problem with the unconstitutional HHS edict that mandates employers and other Christians violate their consciences by facilitating immoral activity, Christians expect that at some point, more of the same will follow from this administration.

For the record, Obama's full statement said:

I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

This ruling is a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law; for children whose parents' marriages will now be recognized, rightly, as legitimate; for families that, at long last, will get the respect and protection they deserve; and for friends and supporters who have wanted nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and have worked hard to persuade their nation to change for the better.

So we welcome today's decision, and I've directed the Attorney General to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for Federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.

On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation's commitment to religious freedom is also vital.  How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions.  Nothing about this decision - which applies only to civil marriages - changes that.

The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts:  when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

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