{"id":131770,"date":"2016-10-11T04:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/we-must-protect-the-institution-of-marriage-from-foreigners.html"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:50:31","slug":"we-must-protect-the-institution-of-marriage-from-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/we-must-protect-the-institution-of-marriage-from-foreigners.html","title":{"rendered":"We must protect the institution of marriage from &#8230; foreigners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana law now requires foreign-born Louisianans &#8212; including naturalized citizens &#8212; to produce an unexpired visa (which violates federal law) as well as a birth certificate (which many refugees, shockingly enough, don&#39;t have access to).<\/p>\n<p>Because you can&#39;t trust the sacred institution of holy matrimony to just <i>anyone,<\/i> amirite?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/wpo.st\/uKX42'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/raiSDUbFgi3ALIAD8dxWMexB18-JQ9pqdXd7xkgAOYGUrs5-6Eocvgyl6-wp1bkrsmw-wq_1AnGAHc8uv4qSQeeIybcjjBqAkasrVeifgX_BMFVoxFRaeDx21tfaH681eu7s4udrzz21sADKZk4_OMg35dLTMKkvvkRcJPXihXmNosBJw2Oydmm4=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/wpo.st\/uKX42'>Louisiana isn&rsquo;t letting immigrants get married<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe state&rsquo;s religious right has made marriage off-limits to foreign-born people without birth certificates &mdash; which means many refugees have been hurt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iwaUoQFgGKu'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana law now requires foreign-born Louisianans &#8212; including naturalized citizens &#8212; to produce an unexpired visa (which violates federal law) as well as a birth certificate (which many refugees, shockingly enough, don&#39;t have access to). Because you can&#39;t trust the sacred institution of holy matrimony to just anyone, amirite? Louisiana isn&rsquo;t letting immigrants get married &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/we-must-protect-the-institution-of-marriage-from-foreigners.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We must protect the institution of marriage from &#8230; foreigners!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5631,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/separate_but_eq.html","url_meta":{"origin":131770,"position":0},"title":"Separate but equal?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Feb-04 9:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Les for reminding me about the Massachussetts Supremes' ruling on gay marriage. 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