{"id":21422,"date":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/21422\/photo-tribute-to-lebanese-couples-with-civil-marriages"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","slug":"photo-tribute-to-lebanese-couples-with-civil-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/21422\/photo-tribute-to-lebanese-couples-with-civil-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Tribute to Lebanese Couples With Civil Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"Civil marriage. Elie Fares, the author of Beirut&#8217;s infamous blog, &#8220;A Separate State of Mind&#8221;, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofmind13.com\/2013\/01\/30\/look-at-all-those-lebanese-apostates\/\" target=_new\">posted<\/a> about the problem with the religious interference in the people&#8217;s right to marry whomever they&#8217;d like. Since Fares said it better than I ever could, here&#8217;s an excerpt from his post on civil marriage laws in Lebanon: <br \/>  <br \/>  <i>&#8220;The biggest obstacle to civil marriage and subsequently state in Lebanon isn&#8217;t just religious folk who can\u2019t fathom living in a place where their religion doesn&#8217;t go all the time, it\u2019s also cowardly politicians who cannot conceive standing against their religious reference in such matters and who also don\u2019t realize that living in a state with a sectarian system doesn&#8217;t mean living in a religious state \u00e0 la Saudi Arabia.<br \/>  <br \/>  I am pro civil marriage because I simply support that basic civil freedom. To some, that is beyond complicated to fathom.<br \/>  <br \/>  Blasphemy is great sometimes.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  The above pictures were taken from from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/335061599942782\/\" target=_new\">this Facebook group<\/a>, which aims to increase national awareness of the issue and support the Lebanese couples unable to marry in their home country. <br \/>  <br \/>  Looking to help? Sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipetitions.com%2Fpetition%2Fcivilmarriageleb%2F%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3DPetition&#038;h=rAQFgbio_\" target=_new\">this petition<\/a>, or attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/21418\" target=new_\">sit-in<\/a> at Nejmeh Square this Monday from 3:00 &#8211; 5:00 PM. <br \/>  <br \/>  Learn more about the religious opposition to civil marriage at <a href=\"https:\/\/beirutspring.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/decoding-the-sunni-position-on-civil-marriage\/\" target=_new\">this<\/a> conveniently summarized explanation from Lebanese blogger, <a href=\"https:\/\/beirutspring.com\" target=_new\">Beirut Spring.<\/a>    <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" 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