Same-sex ‘marriage’ could force churches to stop performing legal marriages altogether: archbishop
ROME, October 19, 2011 – The legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Australia could push Christian churches out of their historic role in solemnizing legal marriages altogether, according to on Image via Wikipedia e archbishop. Archbishop Barry Hickey of the archdiocese of Perth said late last month that the archdiocese would cancel its registration that allows it to celebrate legal marriages if the government attempted to force them to participate in same-sex ceremonies. “We might be back to the ghetto,” Hickey told parishioners at St. Ninian and St. Chad in Maylands. “We can’t do those marriages at all. And if the law forces us to, we cancel our registration as marriage celebrants. We just don’t do it.” Image via Wikipedia Hickey added, “We continue to perform Church marriages but we can’t perform the marriage where there is a basic objection.” “We might be back to the ghetto,” Hickey told parishioners at St. Ninian and St. Chad in Maylands. “We can’t do those marriages at