{"id":33024,"date":"2012-06-13T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/minnesota_episcopal_priest_says_churches_are_puppets_of_the_state_when_it_c\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:32:48","slug":"minnesota_episcopal_priest_says_churches_are_puppets_of_the_state_when_it_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33024","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Episcopal Priest Says Churches Are \u201d\u02dcPuppets of the State\u2019 When It Comes to Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Tom Eklo of Richfield\u2019s St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, after voicing his opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota, went even further recently, saying he\u2019d like to get out of the marriage business altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think clergy should be doing marriages,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We\u2019re basically puppets of the state in that regard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Eklo the state is responsible for marrying individuals\u201d\u201dand because marriage is thus a civil, rather than religious contract\u201d\u201dreligious organizations, of any denomination, should not be tasked with performing marriages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richfield.patch.com\/articles\/priest-says-churches-are-puppets-of-the-state-when-it-comes-to-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Tom Eklo of Richfield\u2019s St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, after voicing his opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota, went even further recently, saying he\u2019d like to get out of the marriage business<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33024\">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":[36,48,39,40,579,66,114,98,435,184,151,108,619,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-churchstate-matters","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33024","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=33024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}