{"id":76134,"date":"2015-07-02T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76134"},"modified":"2015-07-02T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:51:37","slug":"sd-attorney-general-on-gay-marriage-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76134","title":{"rendered":"SD Attorney General on gay marriage license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8211; Attorney General Marty Jackley says if a county employee in South Dakota has religious objections to gay marriage they can have another employee issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP-sdnews.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-76127\" alt=\"AP sdnews\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP-sdnews-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jackley said Thursday that the constitutional right to marry that&#8217;s now guaranteed to same-sex couples must coexist with the constitutional right of freedom of religion for county employees.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general said the issue hasn&#8217;t come up yet in South Dakota but said one county official has asked him hypothetically what would happen.<\/p>\n<p>Jackley says if another county employee was able issue a license, it would be a &#8220;commonsense solution&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t violate the rights of the couple or the employee. He says if someone else was not available, another county or the state could issue a license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8211; Attorney General Marty Jackley says if a county employee in South Dakota has religious objections to gay marriage they can have another employee issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jackley said Thursday that the constitutional right to marry that&#8217;s now guaranteed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76135,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134\/revisions\/76135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}