{"id":34069,"date":"2012-08-15T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/r-_catholic_church_argues_that_scottish_govt_bill_redefines_marriage_and_th\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:29:59","slug":"r-_catholic_church_argues_that_scottish_govt_bill_redefines_marriage_and_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34069","title":{"rendered":"R. Catholic Church argues that Scottish Govt bill redefines marriage and threatens religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Keith O\u2019Brien has written to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warning her that she risks destroying religious liberty in Scotland by insisting upon legalising same-sex \u201d\u02dcmarriage.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The cardinal\u2019s letter notes the bishops of Scotland are \u201d\u02dcdeeply disappointed\u2019 that the Scottish Government decided to proceed with its plans to re-define marriage two weeks ago \u201d\u02dcespecially because the government simply ignored its own consultation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That consultation \u201d\u02dcreturned a result of two to one against the redefinition of marriage, showing quite emphatically that there was little will for the legalisation of same-sex \u201d\u02dcmarriage\u2019 among those who responded to the consultation,\u201d\u009d the cardinal writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconews.co.uk\/latest-edition\/21429\/snp-marriage-bill-poses-a-threat-to-religious-freedom\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Keith O\u2019Brien has written to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warning her that she risks destroying religious liberty in Scotland by insisting upon legalising same-sex \u201d\u02dcmarriage.\u2019 The cardinal\u2019s letter notes the bishops of Scotland are \u201d\u02dcdeeply disappointed\u2019 that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34069\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,114,98,154,151,108,364,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069","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=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}