{"id":64656,"date":"2017-10-22T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64656"},"modified":"2017-10-22T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:17:12","slug":"telegraph-church-of-england-bids-to-put-mothers-names-on-marriage-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64656","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England bids to put mothers&#8217; names on marriage certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mothers&#8217; names could finally be included on marriage certificates after ministers said that legislation put forward by the Church of England &#8220;provides a solution to this problem&#8221;, the Telegraph can disclose.<\/p>\n<p>A draft bill tabled by a senior bishop has been welcomed by the Home Office, following an impasse over plans to update the documents, which currently only include the names of couples&#8217; fathers.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes three years after<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/12067271\/Ministers-reject-simple-change-to-marriage-certificates-to-include-mothers-name-as-unfair-to-gay-couples.html\">\u00a0David Cameron pledged to make the change<\/a>, saying that the existing system, which dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria, &#8220;does not reflect modern Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/21\/church-england-bids-put-mothers-names-marriage-certificates\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mothers&#8217; names could finally be included on marriage certificates after ministers said that legislation put forward by the Church of England &#8220;provides a solution to this problem&#8221;, the Telegraph can disclose. A draft bill tabled by a senior bishop has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64656\">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":[389,98,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-marriage-family","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656","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=64656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64658,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64656\/revisions\/64658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}