Calif. minister guilty for marrying gays

Yes, it's "only" a church law and not one of our secular laws. However, people who believe this, vote. Churches throw money into campaigns to pass laws denying civil rights. Like the Prop. 8 travesty. Laws being past limiting access to abortion are ways to make the legality of it moot if a woman cannot find access if that is her choice. Depending on where she lives, heck, she might not find a pharmacy to fill BC Rx's, either. Or the morning after pill. Etc. Same with denying access by pharmacists using their beliefs as an excuse to subvert legal access and laws. Or locally sanctioning or looking the other way when access to housing or jobs is denied. Or children harassed or vandalism occurs because beliefs or something else is "different.". Not secular law or theocracy of the Inquisition or the Sharia version of theocracy, yet still infecting and denying and controlling. While we don't have a violent and cruel theocracy, religion still strives to control and dominate in this country. Sharia law is theocracy and at times just as violent and intolerant as the Inquisition was. Religion in bed with gov't. A very scary combo when it comes to civil rights or human rights. And some religious focused group seek to create a theocracy here, working through politics and manipulating laws or ignoring some in an effort to reform our secular gov't into a theocracy. Teachers in public schools pushing religion on their students. Pushing for school led prayer, of only one religion. Pushing religion into a science curriculum. So fearing a theocracy being created, even if not in name, but by subverting or not enforcing laws, is very real. Attempts being made all the time. And not always challenged. :O