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Churches already refuse marriages

Mon., July 6, 2015

There is a long-standing precedent for a church refusing to perform marriages based on its beliefs. The Catholic Church does not recognize divorce. If a couple asks to be married in the church and one of them is divorced with a surviving spouse, they will be refused.

They can, of course, get married somewhere else, but they cannot be married in a Catholic church.

Tim Rolfe

Spokane

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