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Wolfson: New York Marriage Won’t Impact Religious Liberty | FreedomToMarry.org‘s President Evan Wolfson appeared on AC 360 last night to discuss the New York fight for marriage equality. Addressing the much-discussed “religious exemptions,” he pointed out that churches are free to not marry interfaith couples, adding, “Nobody can force the Catholic Church to marry divorced Catholics, but the Catholic Church, of course, can’t tell the city clerk not to issue a license — a marriage license from the government — to that divorced Catholic couple.” Watch it:

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