{"id":20676,"date":"2015-07-07T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20676"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:52:03","slug":"governor-brownback-issues-executive-order-15-05-protecting-religious-freedom-for-clergy-religious-leaders-and-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20676","title":{"rendered":"Governor Brownback issues Executive Order 15-05 protecting religious freedom for clergy, religious leaders and groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued an executive order aimed at protecting clergy, religious leaders and religious groups from being penalized by the state for opposing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Brownback issued the order Tuesday. It said the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling last month legalizing gay marriage across the nation has the potential to infringe upon religious liberties.<\/p>\n<p>The state and U.S. constitutions protect religious liberties, and Kansas enacted a law in 2013 saying that state and local agencies can&#8217;t substantially limit someone&#8217;s exercise of religion without a compelling reason.<\/p>\n<p>But the order says state agencies can&#8217;t alter contracts with individuals or religious groups, change their tax status or deny them licenses or tax breaks based on their refusal to perform same-sex marriages or provide services for such marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the full text,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/governor.ks.gov\/media-room\/executive-orders\/2015\/07\/07\/executive-order-15-05\">Kansas Executive Order 15-05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued an executive order aimed at protecting clergy, religious leaders and religious groups from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11,3570],"tags":[6515,6513,106,1437,6516,6517,3898,6514],"class_list":["post-20676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","category-politics-news","tag-clergy","tag-executive-order-15-05","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-governor-brownback","tag-religious-groups","tag-religious-leaders","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20680,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions\/20680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}