Posted on 10/01/2014 7:20:58 AM PDT by lbryce
There’s a legal nuance at work here in that she doesn’t provide the service all, vs a business that only provides the service to heterosexuals.
If she did perform weddings, but (for instance) only for Blacks due to her belief that Whites were oppressors, THEN she’d have a problem.
Many have been conditioned to believe that the state defines marriage. It’s one of the big reasons so many accept impossibilities like ‘gay marriage,’ of course it can exist, judges say it can, pols and voters have votes on if it can exist or not. The faith groups that actually accept ‘gay marriage’ won’t even hold ceremonies for their members until the state they happen to be in accepts it first, truly bizarre.
Freegards
Sounds like a potential Attorney General for this administration
I read the oath. My point is that presiding over wedding ceremonies is not a “dut[y] incumbent upon” a judge. Texas law authorizes judges to preside over weddings, but does not require them to do so.
Also, that is not the oath she took. She is a state court judge, not a “justice or judge of the United States.”
Shouldn’t she lose her job like the cake makers and hospitality people did. She is doing what they were punished for and she is a public official. Who is too afraid to punish a gay supporting black women - why does she get a pass? I know the answer
Legally she gets a pass because she doesn’t provide the service at all.
I can bake a cake. Albiet poorly. If a gay couple showed up at my door and told me to bake a cake for them I’d say “I’m an analyst, I don’t bake cakes” and shut the door on them. And there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
It’s if I say “I bake cakes, but not for gay weddings, go away” that I open myself to a lawsuit.
Maybe so, but to then be selective could be a problem, and especially, if specific as to sexuality.
Impeach and remove her for refusing to perform her duties.
Another way they won’t be “equal” is that there won’t be any “shotgun” same-sex weddings.
Who wants to be married by a dyke anyway?
She is not being selective (she can’t be selective - Texas law does not permit her to perform same-sex marriages). She is simply refusing to perform any marriages.
Wow... the trifecta of protected classes. Female, gay and black. If she converts to Islam she'll be virtually invincible.
this is denial of civil rights under color of authority.
...actually, it denial of rights under authority of color...
Yet another example of a degenerate affirmative-action, equal-opportunity loser.
...actually, it denial of rights under authority of color...
...ah, I was in such a hurry to be witty I left off the ‘s after ‘it’...
Many have been conditioned to believe that the state defines marriage.
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The individual States do define the prerequisites to the privilages of getting both a driver license or a marriage license. Neither privilage is a “right”.
In re marriage, some States require a blood test or a waiting period while other States may not. ...Not a Federal matter!
She is a state court judge, ...
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No. She is a Dallas County Civil District Judge.
“Neither privilage is a right.”
Would your faith not marry its members if the state refused to issue them licenses and forbade them from marrying? Because that is exactly what the faith groups that accept ‘gay marriage’ do.
“In re marriage, some States require a blood test or a waiting period while other States may not. ...Not a Federal matter!”
In many faiths, having a marriage license from any civil state doesn’t necessarily mean two people are actually married. Those faiths that don’t accept civil divorce and remarriage and ‘gay marriage’ are two examples.
Freegards
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