Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a bill Wednesday that allows people in the state to refuse to “solemnize,” or perform, a marriage if they disagree with it. Last week, Tennessee ...

Tennessee now allows public officials to refuse to solemnize a marriage for any reason, after Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed into law a bill that critics say could make the state ...

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The House committee on revision of laws has started deliberating on a proposal that would give district congressmen and provincial governors authority to solemnize marriages within their ...

CITING the rise in common-law relationships or “live-ins” in the Philippines, the chairman of the House Committee on Revision of Laws is pushing for the passage of a bill seeking to give ...

And the muftis are not authorized to solemnize marriages in cases where one party is a foreigner. The opposition parties had objected to the circular at the time. Tur Yıldız Biçer, MP of the ...

(RNS) “It is irrational to allow humanists to solemnize marriages if, and only if, they falsely declare that they are a ‘religion,’” Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote for a federal appeals court.

Indiana Code § 31-11-6-1 allows certain civic leaders, such as mayors and clerks, as well as clergy and designates of certain religions to solemnize marriages. Excluded are certified secular ...

Wardha: Wardha police on Wednesday helped solemnize a marriage at the district border with Yavatmal, to facilitate a groom who had not got permission to enter the district. A cop even stood in as ...