{"id":2290,"date":"2015-12-13T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:41:01","slug":"lawsuit-challenges-opt-out-marriage-law-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2290","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit challenges &#8220;opt-out&#8221; marriage law in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging North Carolina&#8217;s law that allows for magistrates to recuse themselves from performing marriages based on their religious beliefs. The law was passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled legislature over the veto of Governor Pat McCrory (R). Via LGBTQ Nation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lawsuit, filed by three couples, seeks to overturn the law, which was pushed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/tag\/republicans\/\">Republicans<\/a> in the state legislature and passed in June over the veto of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/tag\/republicans\/\">GOP<\/a> Gov. Pat McCrory. Under the law, local magistrates, who can preside over marriages, and some register of deeds officials, who issue licenses, can opt out of performing marriages if they have a ?sincerely held religious objection.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only Utah and North Carolina allow magistrates to refuse to marry a couple based on the magistrate&#8217;s religious beliefs. Currently, about 5% of North Carolina&#8217;s magistrates have filed paperwork to recuse themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging North Carolina&#8217;s law that allows for magistrates to recuse themselves from performing marriages based on their religious beliefs. The law was passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled legislature over the veto of Governor Pat McCrory (R). Via LGBTQ Nation: The lawsuit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[370,106,101],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-glbt-rights","tag-north-carolina","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}