Woman clears first stage in battle to have humanist marriage legally recognised

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Laura Lacole is due to wed Leeds United and Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane

09 May, 2017 16:14

A WOMAN has cleared the first stage in a high court battle to have her forthcoming humanist marriage to an international footballer legally recognised.

Belfast woman Laura Lacole is due to wed Leeds United and Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane at a venue in Northern Ireland next month.

She is challenging the General Register Office for refusing to officially authorise the ceremony due to be conducted by a British Humanist Association celebrant.

Her action is also directed at Stormont's Department of Finance's alleged failure to introduce legislation allowing the couple to have a legally recognised and binding wedding occasion.

http://www.irishnews.com/news/2017/05/10/news/model-clears-first-stage-in-battle-to-have-humanist-marriage-legally-recognised-1021675/

[AtheistCrusader]

1. At odds with your OTHER Ireland post today.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218249871

This is the environment that the people being whined about in that article are fighting to change. An environment that currently discriminates against non-religious people and to a lesser degree, non-Catholics. A government entangled with catholic artifacts.

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2. Not in the least. This is about core legal rights. The other is about internet sniveling.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. It's actually a serious separation of Church and State issue in both cases.

Searching about the Angelus issue, I didn't find ANY internet bickering over it, mostly just level-headed disagreement on both sides.

In that light, it sounds like 'internet sniveling' is just your dismissal that the debate should be happening at all. For one who wants to bring up privilege so much, considering which side of this debate you, and the dominant religious/state force in Ireland is, one might want to direct you to the nearest mirror for some introspection before flinging such invective.

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4. Keeep looking.

Unless, of course, you really don't want to find it.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. I'm certain I can find some, eventually.

So what.

No narrow definitions in play in the opinion piece you posted. Author lambasts the very idea of the issue of whether the Angelus broadcast should be questioned at all. Feigns exasperation that anyone would even question it because it's such a 'trifle little thing', to paraphrase.