A bill making its way through the Legislature would protect churches' nonprofit status if clergy members refuse to perform gay marriages.
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Mark Wilson carries a rainbow flag during San Francisco's 42nd annual gay pride parade on Sunday, June 24, 2012. Organizers say more than 200 floats, vehicles and groups of marchers took part in the parade.
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Sen. Mark Leno's bill would protect churches whose clergy refused to perform gay marriages. It calls marriage a civil contract, not religious.
