Should a pastor/minister be required to perform a gay/lesbian marriage?

If you want to expand on your answer, please do.

No, I don't think so...  I believe they eventually will, once it becomes a less controversial event,... but the separation of Church and State should allow them to refuse.
This is different than a baker or dressmaker that serves the public as a whole.
Churches,.. serve only their members.

Of course,... no church today, would exclude based on race as they once did...
... but,...  
Who knows really... Maybe, looking at it from the historical past perspective of racial discrimination,... maybe they should be forced...
But,.. what gay couple would want to, against such animosity?...

All in all,... I think the legal rights are one thing,... and the religious another...

I have a buddy that had to change his religious affiliation, in order to marry at his wife's church...
...and both were Christian!...

I vote,...allow the Churches their bigotry... ...

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Why not ? The schools have pretty much abandoned all standards anyway. H'll, let the teachers play too, and the parents if they want to, on whatever team they feel like playing on. Can't be leaving ANYONE out. Might damage their self-esteem or their gender-identity, and who knows what sort of physiological damage that could lead to

Ok, how about public bathrooms with urnals or troughs and no partitions for toilets, open to all ages and sex?

I've been in a couple of bars with troughs in unisex bathrooms...

You mess with a lady, and there'll be a half dozen guys put you in the trough...
... no hope to get near a sink there though... ...

Toilets must have doors .... Unisex or not...
They should be soundproofed and airtight, too!... ...


PS... Hovis... Soccer is catching on big here... boys and girls...
Finally...

In UK when I was a kid,... the polite expression was to "spend a penny"...
Public toilets were coin operated...

It's probably 50p now... ...

raydawg wrote on 11/03/15 at 10:44:58:

Should a pastor/minister be required to perform a gay/lesbian marriage?  ... ".

If, it is a, ‘public’, Justice of the Peace.
Who is hired, and paid by, a entity which says, “Same Sex OK”.
(the Guberment), Then it is OK.
Or by a, ‘religion’, which says that is OK.

If it is by a, Pastor/Priest/Etc, who’s, religion, says no.
Then,  NO.

(Cheese and Rice, agreeing with Bot, again.   This HAS Got To Stop!)

However, if a, baker of cakes,  
believes, that they should NOT, bake a cake for someone,
Biased on their belief.  (Religion)

Why then,  can I NOT,  ’SUE’,   (and WIN), from a  store,
that does Not sell, (or obtain for me), a certain meat product,
because their, ‘religion’ does not believe, in that meat product?

Exactly,  WHAT, is different ?

Now the, grey, Grey, GREY, area:
A, ‘Elected’ official, because of the, ‘religion’ they believe,
does not do something.
They are put in JAIL.   By a Guberment, which says:
“You WILL Do That”.

What is next?
The, Guberment saying: ‘You WILL eat Meat on a Friday, regardless of what your ‘religion’ says'.
OR
The, Guberment saying: “You WILL, eat Bacon, regardless of what your, ‘religion’ says".

Hey Bot, do you fancy selling me the Easter Bunny?

After all, we both know that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist, but as we are 'united in our disbelief' maybe we should be considered as 'believers in it's non-existence'? And start posts in forums about how we have faith in the bunny, and people who don't have faith in this bunny need to think about life, because, ....we all need faith.

God help me on the subject of whether the soup-dragon exists.....