{"id":37202,"date":"2013-02-08T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_churches_and_synagogues_priced_out_of_civil_partnership_ceremonies\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:32:22","slug":"guardian_churches_and_synagogues_priced_out_of_civil_partnership_ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37202","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Churches and synagogues &#39;priced out of civil partnership ceremonies&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious institutions have been priced out of offering civil partnership ceremonies by high licensing fees, according to Unitarian ministers and liberal rabbis.<\/p>\n<p>Councils are charging churches and synagogues up to 16 times more for a three-year licence to hold civil partnership ceremonies than for a permanent licence to conduct marriages, Guardian research has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The two-tier charging has been seized on by campaigners for gay marriage as a further sign of the need for reforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2013\/feb\/07\/churches-priced-out-civil-partnerships\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious institutions have been priced out of offering civil partnership ceremonies by high licensing fees, according to Unitarian ministers and liberal rabbis. Councils are charging churches and synagogues up to 16 times more for a three-year licence to hold civil<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37202\">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":[48,39,50,42,576,199,183,155,184,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202","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=37202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}