THE MARRIAGE LAW.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 5

THE MARRIAGE LAW.

THE VIEWS OF THE BAPTISTS. DESIRE TO CONSERVE LIBERTY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Problems connected with the lie temere debate came under review at the Baptist Conference this morning. In common with all churches the Baptist Church is resolute to conserve religious iiberty, and will countenance no attempt to suppress the rights of any church to express its own convictions" in regard to the conditions of valid marriage. The Baptist Church recognises that in the ne temere decree there is a direct invasion of the rights of the Protestant Party in mixed marriage. Tho following resolution was unanimously adopted by the conference: "The Baptist Union of New Zealand renews the protest raised in 1008 by the Protestant Churches against the'promulgation of the ne temere decree by the Roman Catholic Church. The Union believes that the decree raises so many practical inequalities and injustices in regard to mixed marriages that the Government would be justified in either requiring the withdrawal of the decree (as in' Germany), or,in erecting such legislative barriers as will adequately protect the Protestant party in mixed marriages." It was followed by a further resolution expressing the feeling of the conference in regard to the 'services Tendered to the community by tho Rev. Howard Elliott in evidence tendered by him to the committee of the Legislative Council.