This isn’t usually how it works when a religious group says its freedoms are being trampled. We’re more accustomed to hearing it lobbed out there when, say, some Arizona businesses want to discriminate against gay customers. Or perhaps when LGBT couples want to adopt in Michigan.
No, this one is altogether different.
The United Church of Christ, along with a rabbi, a Baptist minister (yes, a Baptist) and several others, banded together to invoke religious freedom in a challenge to North Carolina’s ban (yes, North Carolina) on same-sex marriage.
“North Carolina judges some of its citizens as unfit for the blessings of God. We reject that notion,” said Rev. Nancy Allison, pastor of Holy Covenant United Church of Christ and one of the plaintiffs in the case, according to the Charlotte Observer.
The group on Monday filed a lawsuit arguing that the conservative state is restricting religious liberties by making it a crime for…
