THE MARRIAGE LAW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2189, 14 October 1920, Page 1

THE MARRIAGE LAW.

Auckland. oicbci- n. At tli u 1i;11> 1i -1 toil I erei lee to-day problems connected with the Me Temere Decree came mid* 1 e review. Jn common witii all Churches, the -Baptist Church is resolute to conserve religious liberty, and will countenance no attempt to suppress the lights o£ am Church to express Us own convictions in regard to the conditions o 1 valid marriage. 'the Baptist Cliurch niaiuiahis that in the Ac Tentcre Decree there is a direct invasion of the. rights of the Protestant party in a mixed marriage. '1 he toUcwnig resolution was unanimously adopted by the conference. —"The Baptist I'inoii ot New Zealand renews the protest in i9dd by the Protestant t. lunches against the promulgation of the No Temere Decree by the Roman Catholic. Church. The union believes that the decree raised so many practical inequalities and injustices in regard to mixed marriages liiar the Government would be justified in either requiring the withdrawal of the decree (as in Germany) or in erecting sucli legislative barriers as will adequately protect the Protestant party in mixed marriages.' - This "was followed _by a further resolution expressing the feeling of the conference in regard to the services rendered ro the community by the Rev Howard Klliott in the evidence tendered by him to the committee of the Legislative Council.