Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
In the Catholic church a local church is called a parish.
That is true in states which do not have these county like areas also called by that same name.
The two have nothing to do with each other.
so my question is if a connecticut parish is like a louisiana parish then the catholic church has no leg to stand on since a louisiana parish is not religious but a county.
now if a connecticut parish is truly a church parish then I see no reason why a laymen would be on the board.
thus.. the question I posed.. what is the definition of a connecticut parish and are they like a louisiana parish.
Pure non-sense;IMO. The parishes are two different things. thew courts would kill this quickly.
I dunno the intricacies of the law, but the Constitution states that CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Or something like that.
Even though this move isn't good, Connecticut is not the Congress.
It seems to me for this to work in Connecticut, they'd need to change their state law to establish a religion, which I imagine would be overturned by the US Supreme Court. Doesn't the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution basically imply that federal laws trump conflicting state laws? If the Constitution guarantees there will be no establishment of religion, then how could any attempt by Connecticut to establish one succeed?
And as I said, I really think if it goes too far, the Vatican will get involved. At least I would HOPE they would.
I think as Christains our church should pay taxes. I don't think it is right that the people do pay taxes, but the church is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that doesn't want to give back to society. I think if Jesus were around today, he would be all for paying taxes and helping ease the taxes on working people who dont accept him as lord and savior and help contribute to funding schools, bridges, etc for the children of this country.
I could not understand how a bill like this could even make it as far as it did, until I read this section of the link;
"The two co-chairs of the committee -- incredibly powerful men, Representative Mike Lawlor and Senator Andrew McDonald -- are the two openly gay legislative champions of same-sex 'marriage,'" he notes, "so this does feel like it's a sort of revenge, a payback against the church for leading the fight against same-sex marriage."
Wolfgang believes backers of the bill are angry with groups who helped advertise and support Proposition 8 to protect traditional marriage in California. Among those groups was the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization.
"[T]heir international headquarters is here in Connecticut. They sent over a million dollars to California for the victory in Proposition 8, and so we do think that we sense some payback here against the church and maybe perhaps explicitly against the Knights of Columbus,"
Now I get it.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
"[T]heir international headquarters is here in Connecticut. They sent over a million dollars to California for the victory in Proposition 8, and so we do think that we sense some payback here against the church and maybe perhaps explicitly against the Knights of Columbus," 
