{"id":146654,"date":"2015-07-07T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/07\/let-me-elaborate\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:33:43","slug":"let-me-elaborate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/07\/let-me-elaborate\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me elaborate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skarrin.tumblr.com\/post\/122301031215\/let-me-elaborate\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">skarrin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the US, priests and rabbis and imams and ministers CAN NOT LEGALLY MARRY YOU. The State &#8211; each State within the Union &#8211; has laws. You apply for a license; the celebrant oversees its completion &#8211; like having witnesses sign, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But a Catholic priest can perform as many Sacraments of Matrimony as he wants &#8211; and not a single one of those Catholic couples is married in law until that license is legally completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarriage equality\u201d is about making sure those licenses are available to same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>It has NEVER EVER BEEN about forcing religious leaders to perform marriage ceremonies within their religious traditions that they do not want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I DON\u2019T WANT A CATHOLIC MARRIAGE. I don\u2019t want to go to St. James Cathedral here in Seattle and forcing the Archbishop to marry me to the guy I want to marry (when I have said guy; position is still available).<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the CHIEF JUSTICE of the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES didn\u2019t know this &#8211; that priests have no legal authority, that same-sex marriage has never been about FORCING THIS ISSUE &#8211; horrifies and nauseates me and DESTROYS my faith in the court to uphold the Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skarrin: In the US, priests and rabbis and imams and ministers CAN NOT LEGALLY MARRY YOU. The State &#8211; each State within the Union &#8211; has laws. You apply for a license; the celebrant oversees its completion &#8211; like having witnesses sign, etc. But a Catholic priest can perform as many Sacraments of Matrimony as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/07\/let-me-elaborate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let me elaborate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16759,16807,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}