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Show " t WOULDN'T MABEY 'CATHOLICS. ' W. P. Huntgate and Mrs. Laura Bollington AAere disappointed in matrimonial aspirations at ()A-ensboro, Ky.. last Fridav. Xo irate parent interfered, in-terfered, no obdurate county clerk refused to issue is-sue the license, but a civil officer having the authority au-thority to join persons in matrimonial bonds refused re-fused to perform the ceremony. After securing the license the couple went le-fore le-fore Justice W. K. Rodman and asked to be married. mar-ried. The justice had known Huntgate". family it: other days, and kneAV them as Catholics. He asked Huntgate if he was a Catholic, to' which Hunt-gate replied that he Avas not. that he had been raised in the Catholic faith, but hardly considered himself to be such now. ' "How about the lady V asked Justice Rodman. "AVell, she is a Catholic," replied Huntgate. "I am a Catholic, too," aid the justice, "and T haA'e'the authority to perform marriages. When Protestants come ltere and Avant me to marry them I do so Avithout question, because they hold marriage mar-riage to be only a civil contract. Catholics regard it as a sacrament. I will not perform a marriage ceremony for Catholics when I know it." |