re: Will The Gay Marriage Issue Result In Churches...

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In other "democracies" the homosexual population have used the courts and civil law(actually criminal law with jail time) to silence those voices that have dared to speak out at them for what their beliefs say is a sin, Canada is one such example. But have no fear they are not trying to totally influence free speech or any other freedom you can imagine.

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Those other nations have vastly different constitutional systems and a different historical tradition of rights than the United States does. Many of them have also outlawed racial hate speech, and that's nowhere remotely close to being enacted in the United States.

Taking away the tax exempt status of churches based on who they will and will not marry would currently be illegal, has no precedent, is not supported by anyone with political power, and would be massively unpopular. Also, in Loving v. Virginia, the nearest comparable case we have because it dealt with the state's right to limit who can marry, nothing of the sort happened.

But aside from that, yep, it's totally possible.