So, if they can’t preside over a wedding, they shouldn’t be allowed to preside over any cases that involve LGBTQ+ people since there’s a possibility that they are religiously obligated to imprison or murder such people based on many “sincerely held beliefs” and since they have the power to do those things legally, it sure seems like a perceived conflict of interest. Or something along those lines should be true. So, if any use this to decline to marry, then I hope lawyers will use that to their advantage against that judge in their own cases.
Not only that, but if their religious convictions are so strong are they able to give fair and impartial rulings to people not of their religion?
Or even of their own religion.
“I’m a God-fearing Christian!”
“Ok, you’re free to go!”
Conflicts of interest only apply to people left of center.
Anything to keep from doing their jobs. Probably not someone you want at your wedding anyway.
Were they forced to do so before? Like one couple each or were theycontinuesly marrying more and more until they were bethroted to their whole gay community?
The change was made as a result of a lawsuit filed by Jack County judge Brian Umphress, who is challenging the State Commission on Judicial Conduct’s decision to sanction another judge, Dianne Hensley, in 2019 for her refusal to marry same-sex couples. That same year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott withdrew two nominees to the Commission, allegedly because they voted to issue the warning against Hensley; the Commission withdrew Hensley’s sanction last year, after she sued the body alleging they had violated her freedom of religion.
