Just when we think things are getting bad here in the United States, we observe the Danish Parliament passing a law requiring all churches to perform same-sex "marriages." Although with this development, religious liberty is almost non-existent in Denmark, individual ministers can still opt out of performing the wedding. In that case, the church must find another minister to perform the required duties. This is no small consolation, however, for such a law in one blow nullifies any freedom of an organization or church to define itself according to its own religious values.
Some Danes are holding strong, though:
"Marriage is as old as man himself, and you can't change something as fundamental," . . . church spokesperson Christian Langballe said . . . . "Marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman."
In support of the law, one prominent businessman said "[w]e have felt a little like we were living in the Middle Ages. . . . I think it is positive that there is now a majority for [the law], and that there are so many priests and bishops who are in favour of it, and that the Danish population supports up about it [sic]. We have moved forward. It's 2012."
Notice the appeal to the idea of "majority support." This is the very type of tyranny the Bill of Rights in the United States is meant to protect against.
While such a law would never survive a constitutional challenge in the United States, it still serves as a sober warning of forces seeking to attack a biblical worldview.
