{"id":5033,"date":"2012-03-21T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:46:26","slug":"eu-court-warns-of-loss-of-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5033","title":{"rendered":"EU Court Warns of Loss of Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ruling on same-sex marriage, the European Court of Human Rights warns that churches could lose some of their religious freedom.<\/p>\n

First, the ruling.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Same-sex marriages are not a human right, European judges have ruled.<\/p>\n

Their decision shreds the claim by ministers that gay marriage is a universal human right and that same-sex couples have a right to marry because their mutual commitment is just as strong as that of husbands and wives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But it goes on.<\/p>\n

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The ruling also says that if gay couples are allowed to marry, any church that offers weddings will be guilty of discrimination if it declines to marry same-sex couples. <\/p>\n

It means that if MPs legislate for same-sex marriage, the Coalition\u2019s promise that churches will not be compelled to conduct the weddings will be worthless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It always has been worthless, possibly na\u00efve, if not disingenuous. If, today (actually 4 years ago), a photographer can be sued for turning down business from a same-sex wedding<\/a> and lose<\/a>, it’s no small step for government to compel churches to do what goes against the church’s beliefs. And the EU court has let us all know this in advance.<\/p>\n

Keep that in mind when you hear promises to the contrary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ruling on same-sex marriage, the European Court of Human Rights warns that churches could lose some of their religious freedom. First, the ruling. Same-sex marriages are not a human right, European judges have ruled. Their decision shreds the claim by ministers that gay marriage is a universal human right and that same-sex couples have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-homosexuality","category-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}