text: Deistic natural rights are in his realm.  By the way, render under Caesar was about loyalty to Rome v. Israel.  The priests lost the argument because they had the unclean coin that was used to pay the tax on their persons.  The legal question on gays is settled, by the way, on a natural rights (deistic) argument.  The real argument is now whether Catholic families  or gay couples can demand a marital blessing from the Church.  I say yes, because we pay the freight - Church property is ours, not the clergy's.  When the Sense of the Faithful agrees that gays are born that way and are entitled to (indeed already share) sacramental marriage, gay weddings will happen. Some clergy may be forced into eating humble pie, but that has been a long time coming.