{"id":36203,"date":"2012-12-13T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scottish_church_leaders_demand_more_safeguards_on_same-_sex_marriage\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:00:36","slug":"scottish_church_leaders_demand_more_safeguards_on_same-_sex_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36203","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Church leaders demand more safeguards on same- sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government yesterday published draft legislation that could see gay marriage introduced in Scotland in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But Church leaders fear the new laws do not include enough \u201cprotections\u201d\u009d for religious bodies and individuals and are calling for \u201cmore safeguards\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic Church, like other religions, will have to \u201copt in\u201d\u009d if they want to carry out same-sex ceremonies under the SNP plans. Scottish ministers insist no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/top-stories\/church-leaders-demand-more-safeguards-on-gay-marriage-1-2687144\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government yesterday published draft legislation that could see gay marriage introduced in Scotland in 2014. But Church leaders fear the new laws do not include enough \u201cprotections\u201d\u009d for religious bodies and individuals and are calling for \u201cmore safeguards\u201d\u009d.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36203\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203","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=36203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}