The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cled to hear an appeal by a florist fed by Washgton state for refg to make a flower arrangement for a same-sex weddg due to her Christian beliefs, sisteppg another major se ptg gay rights agast relig liberty.
Contents:
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL SU MISSN THAT SANCTNED HER
- TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
- SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
- U.S. SUPREME COURT REBUFFS APPEAL BY FLORIST WHO SPURNED GAY UPLE
- GAY UPLE FIL PLAT FOR REFAL OF WEDDG
- A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
- GAY COUPLE CANNOT BE REFED MARRIAGE BY JUDGE
TEXAS JUDGE WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL SU MISSN THAT SANCTNED HER
The legal fight over the former unty clerk's cisn to refe two gay upl marriage licens 2015 ntu. A jury will ci whether she is rponsible for their legal fe. * refusing to marry gay couple *
For the next year Hensley, like most public officials McLennan County who were thorized to, did not officiate any marriag, acrdg to the Augt 2016 she began officiatg weddgs aga, and sce then she has married 328 straight upl — but not a sgle gay uple. She sought the urt’s judgment even though she had not been approached to sign a webse for a gay uple. Xavier Becerra sce payg for preventn servic like PrEP enurag homosexual behavr, which his clients reject as addn to queer patients, straight people e PrEP dgs as well.
Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.
TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * refusing to marry gay couple *
Perhaps you have seen your social media feeds an article headled, "Christian Pastor Vermont Sentenced to One Year Prison After Refg to Marry Gay Couple. It says that a pastor om Proctor, Vt., was sentenced to a year feral prison after refg to marry gay upl.
Posts about a Christian pastor Vermont beg sentenced to one year prison after refg to marry a gay uple have circulated on the Inter. LGBTQ mpaigners and legal experts have told of their fears and outrage on Monday after two US supreme urt jtic issued an “appallg” attack on the 2015 landmark cisn enablg same-sex upl to me as the urt cled to hear an appeal the se of former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed 2015 after refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl, after gay marriage beme legal.
”Former Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg, who was the first openly gay printial ndidate, and is married to hband Chasten Buttigieg, also rpond to the jtic, tweetg: “So much for precent and judicial rtrat. Supreme Court on Friday cled to hear an appeal by a florist fed by Washgton state for refg to make a flower arrangement for a same-sex weddg due to her Christian beliefs, sisteppg another major se ptg gay rights agast relig lg 2018 favor of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for two men for relig reasons, the jtic turned away an appeal by Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers the cy of Richland, after a lower urt upheld Washgton's actn.
SUPREME URT REJECTS APPEAL OM CLERK WHO REFED TO REGISTER GAY MARRIAGE
* refusing to marry gay couple *
Stutzman refed service to gay uple Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed of the urt's six nservative jtic - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alo and Neil Gorsuch - said they would have heard the appeal had been on hold while the Supreme Court nsired a separate relig rights se volvg a Catholic Church-affiliated agency that sued after the cy of Philalphia refed to place children for foster re wh the anizatn bee barred same-sex upl om applyg to be foster parents. It backed gay rights a seri of landmark lgs culmatg the 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi. A gay uple at Green Street Church, a Uned Methodist ngregatn Wston-Salem, North Carola, has filed the formal plat agast their pastor, the Rev.
U.S. SUPREME COURT REBUFFS APPEAL BY FLORIST WHO SPURNED GAY UPLE
There is a rise relig refals among bs owners who do not want to serve lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, or LGBTQ, ctomers. * refusing to marry gay couple *
The Uned Methodist Book of Disciple, the nomatn’s book of church law and teachgs, also stat that all people are of sacred worth but the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg, ” It is a chargeable offense unr church law for clergy to pri at same-sex unns.
Carpenter has performed five such blsgs for both straight and gay upl. It read, “Homosexual marriage not regnized. In 2018, the Supreme Court narrowly led favor of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple’s weddg.
In 2019, the Washgton Supreme Court led agast a florist who refed to provi servic for a gay uple’s weddg. Randall also sells surance, and he said he has both sold surance to and filed tax for sgle gay people.
GAY UPLE FIL PLAT FOR REFAL OF WEDDG
You may rell the baker refg to do same-sex weddg k, and a bigoted unty clerk Kentucky who refed to issue licens to a gay uple (and lost reelectn). But judg refg a gay marriage? As a lawyer, I had thought urtrooms as a sanctuary where jtice was tly bld, and we uld unt on judg to at least follow the law and protect the rights of all cizens, cludg a gay uple who wished to marry..
Four years after SCOTUS led that same-sex marriage bans vlated the equal protectn clse of the 14th Amendment, the Amerin Bar Associatn perceived enough of a problem to issue a new ethil opn prohibg judg om discrimatg agast gay and lbian upl when performg weddgs. Jt two months ago, a judge Wt Virgia ma headl for beg the only judge the state to refe to perform weddgs for gay upl. Instead of facg disciple for such overt discrimatn, the Wt Virgia Judicial Invtigatn Commissn accepted his promise – stead of openg his (really, the state’s) urtroom doors to anyone who wanted a legal weddg – heterosexual or gay uple – he would not perform any weddgs at all.
A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
Image gog to that extreme to avoid performg lawful weddgs for a gay uple. But stead of bshg unr the rpet, the Oregon Supreme Court found the judge mted judicial misnduct, and upheld a remendatn om the Commissn on Judicial Fns and Disabily, spendg the judge whout pay for three years for his discrimatn agast a gay uple. At least as long as the judge performs them for heterosexual upl – which means the ethics opn has the same loophole that Wt Virgia has – assumg the state allows judg to opt out of weddg altogether, a judge n stop performg weddgs entirely to avoid dog a pletely legal and nstutnally-protected marriage for a gay uple.
GAY COUPLE CANNOT BE REFED MARRIAGE BY JUDGE
Apparently, actually eraditg bigotry was a bridge too far, so the ABA did what they uld – and elimated bigotry agast a gay uple the public n actually see.
Judg are not required to be ee om prejudice agast the LGBTQ muny – they jt better not actually display their bigotry agast a gay uple while performg their duti.
And I had naively thought that we had fally reached the end of the stggle for homosexual equaly fay law.