{"id":32407,"date":"2012-05-09T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_religion_law_expert_govt_assurances_on_same-sex_marriage_have_no_legal_\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:51:08","slug":"cen_religion_law_expert_govt_assurances_on_same-sex_marriage_have_no_legal_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32407","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Religion law expert: Govt assurances on same-sex marriage have no legal merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn order to permit same sex couples to marry the Government merely needs to repeal s11(c) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 which says \u201d\u02dc11 Grounds on which a marriage is void; c)that the parties are not respectively male and female\u2019.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever if it does repeal that sub section then those organisations and individuals which are authorised to register Marriage (which of course includes Church of England Priests by virtue of their office) would at that point be obliged to perform Same Sex marriages unless there is a specific statutory exemption,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The current state of the law, Mr. [Neil] Addison wrote on his blog was that there was no difference between \u201cCivil\u201d\u009d as opposed to \u201cReligious\u201d\u009d marriage [as] both are in law the same thing and merely take place in different premises.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/06\/religion-law-expert-govt-assurances-on-gay-marriage-have-no-legal-merit-the-church-of-england-newspaper-april-29-2012-p-6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn order to permit same sex couples to marry the Government merely needs to repeal s11(c) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 which says \u201d\u02dc11 Grounds on which a marriage is void; c)that the parties are not respectively male and female\u2019.\u201d\u009d \u201cHowever<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32407\">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":[36,39,40,50,576,74,389,199,168,114,98,151,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407","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=32407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}