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Texas judge still fighting to deny wedding ceremonies to gay couples

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What a horrid response. Shameful.
When “one-man/one woman (at a time)” is the only good, godly, rational and moral area for sexual-bliss to occur, everything else is none of those things.
It’s a dualistic system and it works for a good number of things but when it’s the only philosophical metric, it makes things less genteel and more earthy, (oddly enough).
 
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Texas judges who don’t perform gay weddings for faith reasons won’t face sanctions, high court says

Texas judges who decline to perform a wedding ceremony based on a “sincerely held religious belief” do not violate the state’s rules on judicial impartiality, according to a comment the Texas Supreme Court added to the state’s judicial conduct code Friday.

The court's clarification amended Canon 4 of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibits judges from doing things outside their judicial role that would cast doubt on their ability to act impartially or interfere with the proper performance of judicial duties.

It’s the rule the commission accused Waco Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley [i.e. judge in OP] of violating when it issued a public warning against her in 2019, saying her refusal to marry people based on their sexual orientation cast doubt on her ability to appear impartial as a judge.
 
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