Comments on: Home Affairs allows secular marriage officers to register https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/09/10/home-affairs-allows-secular-marriage-officers-to-register/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Damon Leff https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/09/10/home-affairs-allows-secular-marriage-officers-to-register/#comment-1095167 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:21:02 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=88301#comment-1095167 Quote: “Individuals who wish to register as marriage officers with Home Affairs have traditionally had to be formally backed by a church or a denomination and are only meant to marry members of their congregation.” end.

False! Religious marriage officers nominated by the South African Pagan Rights Alliance (a human rights ngo, not a church) since 2008 have been solemnizing marriages and civil unions for couples who are not in any way associated with either the Alliance, or Paganism!

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