{"id":104404,"date":"2018-07-05T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=104404"},"modified":"2018-07-05T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:54:19","slug":"state-rep-supports-religious-freedom-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/07\/05\/state-rep-supports-religious-freedom-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"State rep. supports religious freedom bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) has announced passage of House Bill 36, the &#8220;Ohio Pastor Protection Act,&#8221; by the Ohio House of Representatives. The bill seeks to emphasize and uphold religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 36, sponsored by Rep. Nino Vitale (R-Urbana), specifies that no ordained or licensed minister or religious society is required to solemnize a marriage or host a marriage ceremony if the marriage does not conform to the minister&#8217;s or religious society&#8217;s sincerely held religious beliefs. In these instances, the bill removes civil and criminal liabilities for any pastor or religious society that refuses to solemnize such a marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill protects our religious liberties and I will always fight to defend our God given constitutional rights,&#8221; Riedel said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, House Bill 36 prohibits the state or a political subdivision from either penalizing or withholding benefits or privileges from a minister or religious society for exercising this freedom. Such benefits include governmental contracts, grants, or other licenses.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Ohio Senate for further consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) has announced passage of House Bill 36, the &#8220;Ohio Pastor Protection Act,&#8221; by the Ohio House of Representatives. The bill seeks to emphasize and uphold religious freedom. House Bill 36, sponsored by Rep. Nino Vitale (R-Urbana), specifies that no ordained or licensed minister or religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 21:06:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}