{"id":9023,"date":"2014-04-29T00:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2014-04-29T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:29:08","slug":"united-church-of-christ-sues-north-carolina-to-allow-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2014\/04\/united-church-of-christ-sues-north-carolina-to-allow-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church of Christ sues North Carolina to allow marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ucc42814.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9025\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ucc42814.jpg?p=9023&amp;\" alt=\"ucc42814\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ucc42814.jpg 700w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ucc42814-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy Covenant United Church of Christ, the United Church of Christ (UCC), along with ministers of other Charlotte area congregations including a rabbi, filed a lawsuit challenging state marriage laws for restricting ministers\u2019 free exercise of religion. The UCC is also seeking preliminary injunction that would allow ministers to choose whether to perform a religious marriage. Ministers who do marry a couple that has not yet obtained a marriage license can face misdemeanor charges punishable by up to 120 days in jail. The case appears to be the first time a national Christian denomination has challenged a state\u2019s marriage laws.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit has been in the works since 2012, when North Carolina voters approved Amendment One, a constitutional ban on marriage equality, with 61% of the vote. State laws prevent ministers from performing weddings if the couple does not already have a marriage license, and so religious wedding ceremonies are at odds with the law even if ministers are not sanctioning civil marriages.<\/p>\n<p><cite>via TIME.com<\/cite><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2014\/04\/united-church-of-christ-sues-north-carolina-to-allow-marriage-equality\/\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"700\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Covenant United Church of Christ, the United Church of Christ (UCC), along with ministers of other Charlotte area congregations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,64],"tags":[1144,561],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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