this won't stand (sit or sprawl). the license signed at some point of the ceremony (or later somewhere else) is 'all' the state may care about. perhaps we should keep in mind that it was Indiana which attempted to legislate the value of Pi

But gay people can't get married in Indiana, so how could they have weddings. This is like a law banning unicorn parades.

The religious nuts are being completely consistent, if you focus less on the technical merits and more on whether this brings us closer to their version of Sharia law. It's all about having the bible control our lives, which if your brain is small enough must feel rather comforting?

@2...I think the fear is that the law could be used to prosecute LGBT-affirming clergy that perform blessing services for their LGBT members. So if an Episcopal or ELCA or MCC or UCC or whatever pastor were to perform a service that blessed the union of two men, he or she could potentially be prosecuted.

I don't think that possibility would come to pass, but that is the fear.

@2 Exactly -- by making it a criminal offense to apply any horn-shaped artifice on any Equidae in public or private.

Evidently, this has something to do with the fact that Indiana has recently changed the classification system for felonies committed in the State. Apparently, this language has been on-the-books for some time, but they're changing the felony classification to comply with the new system.

I think the only rational response here is to get a bunch of certified ministers together with a bunch of legally licensed LBGT couples from other states, all caravan up to Indianapolis, and solemnize the fuck out of their unions very publicly. I'll be happy to join.

@7: I have a friend who is the pastor of a gay-friendly UCC congregation in Indianapolis. Civil disobedience actions like that are being planned. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens.

But are gay clergy allowed to perform GOP party members' weddings? They haven't taken that away from Indiana residents?

This won't stick.

The issue is not a party lines one (polls repeatedly demonstrate) but a civil and human rights one, in America. Unbeknownst to the GOP, evidently, they are out of touch with Americans - of which a majority is pro-American, gay, civil rights.

Once more the GOP has demonstrated that they are not listening to their constituents.

I doubt that these wing nuts much care if this law is constitutional or not, when it gets struck down by a court they will huff and puff and cry about "liberal activist judges" and claim that this is why people need to elect more republicans.

The republican base loves this shit .