Not the first time an article written by a clickbaiting nonlawyer has been wrong on the law.
11 Native American Tribes, Including The Two Largest, Prohibit Gay Marriage
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I would assume that it would fall under the same category as churches. An individual church can choose to marry or not marry who they wish. My wife and I went through that with one of our churches we were looking at. The minister felt we were 'not right' and declined to marry us. City Hall cannot deny the permit and will perform the ceremony if requested. But just cause you have a certificate does not mean any church must marry you.
it appears that the source for that CNS news item is a satirical website:
How to enforce gay agenda inside Native American tribes
How to enforce gay agenda inside Native American tribes
Problem Komrade?
AP: Handful of Holdout Tribes Dig in Against Gay Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/06/us/ap-us-gay-marriage-native-americans.html?_r=0
She was an American, we were doing the long distance thing. She was planning to move to Toronto. We had met only 9 months earlier. He thought we should live together for some time before becoming married. His personal opinion. We are coming up on our 15th wedding anniversary now so he was incorrect but he was within his rights not to marry us. We found a different minister who married us. He was the minster at the church which is now my home church.
Nope, tribal governments are governments. No freedom of religion exceptions.
I've clearly missed something. I read that they STILL have THEIR laws against it.
So do the states with gay marriage prohibitions. And those laws are overturned. Which means they have no force. They can keep the laws on the statute books, they just can't do anything with them.
The statute books are littered with laws that have been struck down. The legislatures just never got around to repealing them.
Not at all. The author probably gets paid by the number of clicks. Hence the term "clickbaiting."
Canadian Law, so far, protects all churches and religious institlutions, including those of aboriginal spirituality, from being forced to conduct marriage ceremonies that do not conform to their moral principles. Since all marriage is a Federal jurisdiction in Canada, tribes were never entitled to issue licences, which are registered in Federal government offices.
In Canada and the U.S. and the rest of the West, this will be the next target of the attack, in the relentless onslaught of the homosexual lobby to overturn every vestige of exclusivity for religion in recognizing only traditional marriage.
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