Comment Re:Moral authority (Score 4, Informative) 547
Yes. This particular incident comes from the fact that the majority of people (according to polls) do agree that equality is a good thing and that gay people should be allowed to marry and adopt children.
However, the church disagrees, and because they have a government-given monopoly on defining marriage, there's a bit of a crisis now.
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)