Catholics Argue For Right To Refuse Goods, Services

By DANIELA ALTIMARI
The Hartford Courant
March 7, 2009

No one is arguing that a Catholic priest should have to perform a gay marriage.

But the church says that doesn't go far enough.

The Connecticut Catholic Conference is asking lawmakers to expand the category of those who don't have to comply with the state's new same-sex marriage law if their religion holds that such unions are wrong.

People such as florists, wedding photographers and justices of the peace. the rest