A liberal Protestant denomination filed a lawsuit last week challenging North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage, arguing that the freedom of religion of its clergy members is violated because they are not able to join same-sex couples in matrimony, the New York Times reports. The lawsuit is the "first such case brought by a national religious denomination challenging a state’s marriage laws," the Times further reports.
North Carolina's law criminalizes the religious blessing of weddings that do not involve state-issued marriage licenses.
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