{"id":43472,"date":"2013-10-19T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=43472"},"modified":"2013-10-19T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T13:18:57","slug":"french-court-rules-mayors-cannot-block-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=43472","title":{"rendered":"French court rules mayors cannot block same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/france-marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43470\" alt=\"\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0575\u0576\u0561\u057d\u0565\u057c\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b \u0561\u0574\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/france-marriage.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/france-marriage.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/france-marriage-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/france-marriage-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s top court ruled Friday that French mayors cannot refuse to officiate same-sex marriages based on their personal, moral or religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council ruled that the same-sex marriage law does not infringe on the mayors&#8217; &#8220;freedom of conscience&#8221; and therefore should be applied.<\/p>\n<p>A group of seven mayors had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council on September 18 stating their opposition to conducting same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/18\/world\/europe\/france-same-sex-marriage\/\">A bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt<\/a> was passed earlier this year by the French parliament and signed into law by President Francois Hollande.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of countries around the world now allow same-sex marriage, the majority of them in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; France&#8217;s top court ruled Friday that French mayors cannot refuse to officiate same-sex marriages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[2852],"class_list":["post-43472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-same-sex-marriage","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}