Clergy Exemptions
(Lupu & Tuttle 2010). The initial Amendment forbids their state from adjudicating intraecclesial theological disputes and picking churches’ ministers; therefore the federal government would break fundamental constitutional values if it ordered clergy to do spiritual marriages. Yet the theory is that (but unlikely), you are able that “the federal federal government could treat the party of civil wedding as being an accommodation that is public and prohibit discrimination by providers of this solution. Or, the government could impose an ailment on its grant of this authority to solemnize marriages, needing the celebrant become prepared to provide all partners.” (Lupu & Tuttle 2010). Concern with such requirements that are governmental some state legislatures to authorize solemnization exemptions for clergy. Continue reading “Numerous commentators and Supreme Court Justices accept the “conventional wisdom” that clergy enjoy an initial Amendment right to not ever take part in weddings.”