{"id":23946,"date":"2011-01-12T04:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/postmedia_news_saskatchewan_officials_must_perform_same_sex_marriages\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:15:57","slug":"postmedia_news_saskatchewan_officials_must_perform_same_sex_marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23946","title":{"rendered":"(Postmedia News) Saskatchewan officials must perform Same Sex Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In giving a resounding &#8220;no&#8221; to proposed laws that would have allowed Saskatchewan marriage commissioners to opt out of uniting same-sex couples on religious grounds, the province&#8217;s top court was very clear about the potential impact of such legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be a significant step backward if, having won the difficult fight for the right to same-sex civil marriages, gay and lesbian couples could be shunned by the very people charged by the province with solemnizing such unions,&#8221; Justice Robert Richards said, authoring Monday&#8217;s majority decision for the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/Saskatchewan+officials+must+perform+marriages\/4088998\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In giving a resounding &#8220;no&#8221; to proposed laws that would have allowed Saskatchewan marriage commissioners to opt out of uniting same-sex couples on religious grounds, the province&#8217;s top court was very clear about the potential impact of such legislation. &#8220;It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23946\">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":[39,50,576,207,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-canada","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946","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=23946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}