{"id":67118,"date":"2018-01-11T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67118"},"modified":"2018-01-11T05:33:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T10:33:07","slug":"independent-definition-of-marriage-has-now-evolved-to-include-same-sex-couples-eu-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67118","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Definition of marriage has now &#8216;evolved&#8217; to include same-sex couples, EU court says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union must compel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/EU\">EU<\/a>\u00a0countries that have not yet legalised\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/same-sex-marriage\">same-sex marriage<\/a>\u00a0to recognise gay weddings held in other nations, a landmark legal statement from the EU\u2019s highest court has recommended.<\/p>\n<p>The European Court of Justice\u2019s advocate general said in an official legal opinion on Thursday morning that there had been \u201cevolution\u201d in the societies of EU countries, and that the idea that \u201cthe term marriage means a union between two persons of the opposite sex can no longer be followed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If the advocate general\u2019s recommendation is followed by the ECJ, EU citizens will be allowed to bring in their same-sex spouses from non-EU countries to live with them in any EU member states under free movement rules \u2013 a right some countries only recognise for opposite-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/gay-marriage-eu-same-sex-marriage-european-court-of-justice-ecj-definition-evolved-advocate-general-a8153096.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union must compel\u00a0EU\u00a0countries that have not yet legalised\u00a0same-sex marriage\u00a0to recognise gay weddings held in other nations, a landmark legal statement from the EU\u2019s highest court has recommended. The European Court of Justice\u2019s advocate general said in an official<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67118\">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":[576,175,168,200,114,98,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67118","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=67118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67120,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67118\/revisions\/67120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}