{"id":33800,"date":"2012-07-31T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_scotland_to_legalize_same_sex_marriage_by_2015\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:04:07","slug":"rns_scotland_to_legalize_same_sex_marriage_by_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33800","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Scotland to legalize Same Sex Marriage by 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland has announced it will allow same-sex weddings as early as 2015, becoming the first country in the United Kingdom to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal, and that is why we intend to proceed with plans to allow same sex marriage and religious ceremonies for civil partnerships,\u201d\u009d said Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who made the announcement on Wednesday (July 25).<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church were against the move, but gay-friendly Christian groups said they were \u201crelieved\u201d\u009d by the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/scotland-to-legalize-gay-marriage-by-2012\/2012\/07\/27\/gJQAk8jNEX_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland has announced it will allow same-sex weddings as early as 2015, becoming the first country in the United Kingdom to do so. \u201cWe are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal, and that is why we intend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33800\">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":[39,50,576,199,114,98,108,326,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33800","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=33800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}