UU ministers arrested

[Steven Jamar]

Two Unitarian Universalist Ministers were arrested in NY for performing same-sex marriages under the power granted them by the state, not just as religious unions.  Of course the typical faultlines are exposed - including claims of violation of separation of church and state.  But surely that cannot be true - this is a simple case of a prosecutor interpreting the State and Federal Constitutions to permit this sort of gender discrimination in marriage - and so enforcing the law as he interprets it.

What always strikes me as curious in these are the cries of "upholding the law" - as if the constitutions were not law, and indeed superior law at that.

Anyway does anyone see an establishment problem with these prosecutions that I am missing?

washington post article is at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61436-2004Mar15.html

Steve
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