We can marry you anywhere in Scotland – with two exceptions
Humankind celebrants have decided not to conduct weddings at any venue owned by Donald Trump.
In an article in the Daily Record, Humankind celebrant Tim Maguire, who is also the Honorary Chaplain to the University of Edinburgh and Napier University said, “It took a long time for humanists to win the right to conduct legal marriage in Scotland, and we won that right because we have certain distinctive beliefs; beliefs based upon the same enlightenment values on which the USA was founded.
The change in leadership in the United States represents a backward step for human rights and secular values that has repercussions across the world. Core humanist values of widespread human flourishing, individual dignity and autonomy, freedom of belief, and truth-telling are being abandoned.
As it says in The Amsterdam Declaration, humanists ‘affirm the worth and dignity of the individual and the right of every human to the greatest possible freedom and fullest possible development compatible with the rights of others. To these ends we support peace, democracy, the rule of law, and universal legal human rights. We reject all forms of racism and prejudice and the injustices that arise from them. We seek instead to promote the flourishing and fellowship of humanity in all its diversity and individuality’.
We very much doubt that anyone who wants a humanist wedding would now choose to get married at Turnberry, but if anyone is thinking about it, we hope they will take time to think about the values they are choosing to support.
