{"id":19911,"date":"2012-10-22T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19911"},"modified":"2013-11-01T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T02:28:27","slug":"california-passes-unnecessary-law-with-no-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/california-passes-unnecessary-law-with-no-fanfare\/","title":{"rendered":"California Passes Unnecessary Law with No Fanfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of California recently passed a law — SB1140<\/a> — that explicitly states clergy are not required to perform homosexual ceremonies.\u00a0 The law is naturally intended to protect those who might have faced attacks — potentially through equal opportunity or even IRS channels — against religious leaders who act on their faith in opposition to homosexuality:<\/p>\n

A person…shall not be required to solemnize a marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith. Any refusal to solemnize a marriage…shall not affect the tax-exempt status of any entity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notably, no law required<\/em> clergy to act against their faith.\u00a0 The law was a preemptive measure to protect religious freedom — and not from one of the more conservative state governments.\u00a0 Homosexual activists were even “glad”<\/a> that Governor Jerry Brown “codif[ied] religious protections.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly, homosexual advocates and their allies have opposed efforts to do precisely the same thing for US troops<\/a>.\u00a0 They claim it is unnecessary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via the Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state of California recently passed a law — SB1140 — that explicitly states clergy are not required to perform homosexual ceremonies.\u00a0 The law is naturally intended to protect those who might have faced attacks — potentially through equal opportunity or even IRS channels — against religious leaders who act on their faith in opposition to homosexuality: A person…shall not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3643,219,442,953,3645,2,10,171,3644],"class_list":["post-19911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-california","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-irs","tag-jerry-brown","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-sb1140"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}