Well, at least the oligarchy can pull through and tell the peasants how to live.

Do wills not exist?

It may be tragic but necessary for Christian organizations to stop providing help in D.C.

Really? You'd advocate letting people that are in need suffer because the city council legalized gay marriage?

Really?

Damn.

Depends. That's why I say "may".

What would it depend on? I mean, I'm don't purport to call myself a christian in any sense of the word, and in fact, I'm kinda a cock to those less fortunate than me... but still, if I were inclined to be of a helpful and generous nature to people, I don't see the point in cutting off an entire city full of people from christian goodness simply because the city council decided that gay marriage was fine and dandy.

While most people prefer a chapel or church to get married in. I do believe there are other options apart from christian ones. So the idea that the government would force the chuch to perform marriages they don't want to is silly.

I took it from your abortion comment, considering docs are the only place to get abortion meds, so on and so forth...

Anyways, it won't come to that, and if it did, I'd be right behind you telling them to go annoy someone else.

Do wills apply in the case of divorce? Does sudden death prior to creation of a will never occur?

There are other things that could be insisted on; it's not just marriage. As I recall (though not limited to) there is the issue of insurance for workers and adoption issues. I think the latter is one of the areas the church is saying they may no longer be able to provide. But like I say, again: It depends. I certainly don't speak for the Catholic organizations in D.C.; I simply say that it "may" be tragic but necessary for D.C. to find other organizations.

Care to explain more on the adoption issues? Churches currently have a say or provide support in this?

I don't quite see how the adoption issue pertains to charity in general. Care to explain? Or were you talking only about adoption?

As I understand it, there are Catholic orphanages that provide adoption services, yes. Depending on what D.C. requires of that organization, they "may" have to close.

I don't recall that I said charity, but providing adoption services is "help", which is what I said. An article I read on this said that the Roman Catholics may have to stop providing "adoptions and other services".