Sharpton Still Can't Give A Coherent Gay Marriage Position - Probably Won't Be Any In HIS Church

DAVID IN BALTIMORE (08 April 2013): For homosexual marriage, from a constitutional point of view  and how do you, what is your stance on it and from a  theological point of view what is your stance on it.

REV. AL SHARPTON: Well I think that constitutionally, constitutionally I think that’s what the courts are going to decide and I think that you raised the right question. I think that as a Baptist Minister I could not go to my church and perform that my church would not we do not ah ah believe that that is something the precepts of the church would do. But, I do not believe that my church ah denomination or I have the right to impose that on people that don’t believe that and I think that’s the question. The constitutional question and the theological question are two different questions. Just like let me put it to you this way David. If we gonna run the ah marriage by the church and by theology than we should not have a Justice of the Peace allowed to do weddings. We don’t know if he believes in God or not. We shouldn’t be able to go to court and do it. In fact, why do we go to court to get marriages licenses, why doesn’t the church issue the marriage license if we are only dealing with marriage as a religious or sacred institution? And why don’t the people that I perform their marriage, why don’t if they are divorced they come to me and I decide alimony and I decide child support, why don’t the church decide that? Why do we go to court? So I think that it is hypocritical to say I’m married under the laws of God, but I’m gonna divorce under the laws of man and man gonna enforce the alimony. Either you gonna to have everything run through the church or nothing run through the church.