As the marriage-equality debate moves to the New York state legislature, the state’s leading gay rights advocacy organization released an online-only video today that seeks to deflate three of the myths used by religious groups to oppose same-sex marriage.
The Empire State Pride Agenda's “Marriage Equality and Religion: The Massachusetts Experience” features comments from three religious leaders in the Bay State, where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2004. The Reverend Nancy Taylor of Old South Church; the Reverend Thomas Shaw, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts; and the Reverend Michael Wayne Walker of Messiah Baptist Church in Brockton discuss how the First Amendment clashes religious groups cite have not come to pass in their state, and are unlikely to present a problem in New York.
Pride Agenda spokesman Josh Meltzer told Advocate.com that the video was prompted by "misinformation campaigns" the organization has observed in other states that leave some people "unclear" about how same-sex marriage actually affects religions and religious institutions.
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