{"id":22622,"date":"2018-07-12T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:11:20","slug":"representative-riedel-applauds-house-passage-of-ohio-pastor-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/representative-riedel-applauds-house-passage-of-ohio-pastor-protection-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative Riedel Applauds House Passage of \u201cOhio Pastor Protection Act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) announced passage of House Bill 36, or the \u201cOhio Pastor Protection Act,\u201d by the Ohio House of Representatives. The bill seeks to emphasize and uphold religious freedom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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\u2019s or religious society\u2019s 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>\u201cThis bill protects our religious liberties and I will always fight to defend our God given constitutional rights,\u201d Rep. Riedel said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/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>State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) announced passage of House Bill 36, or the \u201cOhio Pastor Protection Act,\u201d by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-churches","category-general-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rep.-Craig-Riedel.jpg?fit=316%2C442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-5SS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 02:29:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}