Sentences with phrase «perform civil ceremonies»
«We're a long way from pastors being forced to perform civil ceremonies, and there are strong constitutional protections already in place that would prevent that from happening,» he said.
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In 2001, in a decision that side - stepped the religious liberties issue, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that he did not need to perform the ceremony because there were other civil servants who would.
The morning after the proposal or elopement, a priest performs a simple ceremony called «mekala - kalaan», which is similar to a small civil wedding in the west.
Duty Room Handles various matters including motions for default judgment, decisions concerning applications for warrants to search, applications by the Clerk to strike improper or incomplete pleadings, motions to dismiss filed by the prosecutor pursuant to Criminal Rule 48, cognovit notes, motions to excuse jurors, probable cause hearings, and performing civil wedding ceremonies.
As regards the finding of indirect discrimination, the EAT accepted that the requirement for all registrars to perform civil partnership ceremonies placed persons of the claimant's religion at a particular disadvantage in comparison with other persons who do not share the same religion.
Subsequently, two other members of staff, one a Muslim and the other a Christian, similarly objected to performing civil partnership ceremonies: by way of compromise the council offered to limit their involvement to registration duties.
The proposed Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill which would allow a «third category» of groups centred on a belief to perform ceremonies, as well as religious and non-religious groups has attracted criticism.
Referring to the case of London Borough of Islington v Ladele [2009] EWCA Civ 1357, in which a registrar refused on religious grounds to perform civil partnership ceremonies, Lord Carey said the field of sexual ethics and Christian teaching was complex, and it was «regrettable» that senior members of the judiciary felt able to make disparaging comments and to use the «unbefitting» descriptive word, «discriminatory».
If spending thousands of dollars planning a big, white wedding doesn't appeal to you, or you and your fiance don't want a religious wedding ceremony, a civil ceremony performed by a justice of the peace might be the ideal solution.
(While there is an experimental program in some counties in New Jersey to allow divorce by affidavit without a court appearance for settled cases, in most cases a court appearance before a judge is required for the marriage to be dissolved just as the commencement of a marriage requires the parties getting married to be present in front of an official (religious or civil) who performs the marriage ceremony.)