Barring Clergy From Offering Legal Wedlock Needless and Unfair ; If This Bill Passes, Religious People Will Be Forced to Get Married Twice.

Portland Press Herald › March 12, 2007

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Aproposal to remove the power of clergy to perform legal marriages in Maine violates an essential principle of wasted action: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

And, despite the support that Rep. Boyd Marley, D-Portland, offers for LD 779, there's no good reason at all to make changes in the law that governs the power to marry people in Maine.

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Barring Clergy From Offering Legal Wedlock Needless and Unfair ; If This Bill Passes, Religious People Will Be Forced to Get Married Twice.

The bill comes up for a public hearing Tuesday in Augusta. But members of the ...

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