A footnote to my post of yesterday: one of Sweden's parties proposes that as part of its new gay marriage law, pastors should be compelled to officiate at gay weddings, or at no weddings at all.
That might seem an unwelcome interference with church matters, were it not for the blindingly obvious question of why the church is in a position to be dictated to by parliament anyway. Surely the problem, if there is one, is with the relationship of the church with the state, or even with the notion of pastors anyway. [I've been reading Frank Viola's Reimagining Church lately, which takes a particularly hard line on such topics.]
There are some other complexities to the argument, of course - such as which kind of discrimination trumps which other kind. But that wasn't the point I wanted to raise.
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