{"id":21013,"date":"2010-07-30T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_roman_catholic_outrage_over_plans_to_keep_the_act_of_settlement\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:30:24","slug":"cen_roman_catholic_outrage_over_plans_to_keep_the_act_of_settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21013","title":{"rendered":"CEN: Roman Catholic outrage over plans to keep the Act of Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic leaders in Scotland have denounced the coalition government\u2019s plans to leave intact the 1701 Act of Settlement, which bans the monarch from marrying a Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a monarch is free to marry a Scientologist, Muslim, Buddhist, Moonie or even Satanist but not a Catholic, then there\u2019s something seriously wrong,\u201d\u009d said Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell.<\/p>\n<p>In a written answer given to the House of Commons on June 30, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office, Mr. Mark Harper stated \u201cthere are no current plans to amend the laws on succession\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Devine, who during the General Election had urged Catholics not to vote Labour due to their social policies, expressed outrage over the Cameron government decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/28\/catholic-outrage-over-plans-to-keep-the-act-of-settlement-the-church-of-england-newspaper-july-23-2010-p-6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic leaders in Scotland have denounced the coalition government\u2019s plans to leave intact the 1701 Act of Settlement, which bans the monarch from marrying a Roman Catholic. \u201cWhen a monarch is free to marry a Scientologist, Muslim, Buddhist, Moonie or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21013\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,579,199,133,114,154,151,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}