Texas judge asks federal court to end marriage equality nationwide. She has been arguing that, as a Christian, she should not have to follow state rules about judicial impartiality.
Source: southpawFA
Texas judge asks federal court to end marriage equality nationwide. She has been arguing that, as a Christian, she should not have to follow state rules about judicial impartiality.
Source: southpawFA
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So if I was a part of a religion that thinks that Christian shouldn’t be allowed to live, does that mean that I shouldn’t have to obey the laws against murdering them?
If a judge can’t understand the separation of church and state they should not be a judge.
>The case involves Judge Dianne Hensley of Waco, Texas, who has been involved in years of legal proceedings to try to win the right to not perform marriages for same-sex couples while still performing them for opposite-sex couples. She claims that, as a Christian, she should not have to follow state judicial ethics rules about impartiality.
>The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct opened an investigation into her discriminatory policy in 2018 and found that she violated state rules requiring judges to be impartial, issuing her a warning.
>“If you’re going to perform marriages, you must perform marriages for everyone,” said [Texas Justice Court Training Center executive director Thea Whalen in 2019](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/judge-refuses-perform-gay-marriages-doesnt-want-offend-god/).
>Hensley claimed that the investigation discriminated against her as a Christian, and she sued with help from an anti-LGBTQ+ legal organization, the First Liberty Institute. She eventually got support from [Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/01/texas-attorney-general-sides-judge-wont-perform-sex-marriages/)).
>“I have no desire to offend anybody, but the last person I want to offend is God,” she said at the time. “So I’m entitled to accommodations just as much as anyone else.”
Oh, Log Cabin Republicans! Do you want to explain how the Republican Party isn’t a party of genocidal bigots? I’m waiting.
Christian nationalists literally demonize things like empathy, equality, and love—things that Jesus stood for.
They would rather make America insufferable than actually love everyone.
She has the eyes of a demon
Momma always says stupid is as stupid does.
My religion says “Christians” are going to hell. Yet I am the bad guy for saying it.
(It’s Christianity. Christianity says it.)
Of course the Supreme Court will agree.
Yet another mess that would not exist if we’d elected Hillary. We’d have a 6-3 liberal Supreme Court.
It’s simple bitch. If you can’t perform the job as required,then resign
She should be disbarred.
She should be removed as a judge! Her personal life choices are just that hers. She has zero rights to push her choices on others. It’s right there in the constitution. She should be removed as a judge!! SMFH! I hate these people
Does this mean as a “Christian” I can refuse anything she says because she’s a woman and women are not to be in charge of men?
I am totally confused. My Christian faith, United Methodist, teaches us that all of God’s children are loved. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that would support the idea that some people should have rights to marriage and others don’t. This judge’s opinion is no more based on the teachings of Christ than my opinion that people from Texas should not be allowed to reproduce or vote.
If she has a problem following the state laws that apply to her job, she can find another job. She has no religious requirement to be a judge.
I remember being told “Conservatives aren’t coming after marriage! Stop fearmongering!”
If she was an actual Christian, she would love her neighbor. As it is, she’s just a self-absorbed, hate-filled narcissist way to concerned about what others do with their lives, even when it has no impact on her own.
No one is asking her to perform the Holy Rite of Matrimony under the eyes of God for gay people. They are asking her to perform her CIVIL duty of marrying people, under the state.
As a Christian, stop your bitching. Jesus didn’t nailed to the cross for you to act like an asshole.
My county in Tennessee stopped doing courthouse marriages when same sex marriage was legalized. My mother in law and her husband were the last to get married at the courthouse. Then,last year, Tennessee passed a bill allowing judges and clerks to decline to perform same sex marriages. They still have to issue the license. Tennessee also doesn’t recognize marriages performed by someone who was ordained online. They’ve made it as difficult possible for gay couples to get married.
As a Christian, one should fucking learn how to be Christian.
How many times are they going to run this play? Fuck Off already
As a Christian, I believe when Jesus said that how you treat the marginalized is how you’re treating Jesus. False Christians like her believe in empire and power, in using religion as a weapon to beat the world into the cruel shape they envision. They are not interested in the actual practice of Christianity and loving your neighbor as yourself and treating others with love and compassion.
Matthew 25: 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
She didn’t have to be judge, no Christian values broken.
The right to swing my arm ends at your nose
I really wish these conservative Christian shits would accept that very simple concept
She wants to force her religious beliefs on everyone else. She is one of those Christian Nationalists also known as Christian Dominionists who believe Biblical Law supersedes the laws of man such as the US Constitution. These people are a legitimate threat to our Constitution and they’re already in the government and military.
As a Christian, she should keep her fucking religion out of other people’s lives, but that’s 100% impossible for them.
Religion is a cancer
So she’s admitting that she’s not an impartial judge. She wouldn’t make jury selection, she definitely shouldn’t be on the bench.
Edit: they’re all part of the same group:
> Hensley claimed that the investigation discriminated against her as a Christian, and she sued with help from an anti-LGBTQ+ legal organization, the First Liberty Institute. She eventually got support from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
>“I have no desire to offend anybody, but the last person I want to offend is God,” she said at the time. “So I’m entitled to accommodations just as much as anyone else.”
If you cannot wrap your feeble mind around the separation of church and state, go find another fucking profession.
and these folks say THEY are persecuted? there’s no hate like Christian love
She can resign. That’s an option. That’s actually the only option, other than following the law according to the oath she took
So, Christian sharia law?
As an atheist I shouldn’t have to be held hostage by her bullshit.
So she shouldn’t have to abide by rules she doesn’t believe in, but everybody else should have to live by hers?
Didn’t the Supreme Court JUST tell Kim Davis to go fuck herself?
The choice of religion should never ever ever be an excuse to deny someone their rights because of how they were born.
Lgbtq+ isnt a choice. Religion is
No one forced her to be a judge, no one is forcing her to continue to be a judge
If religion is a higher priority than impartiality, then she can chose to leave the bench
Fuck these Christian nationalists.
As a non-Christian, I shouldn’t have to follow the rules of her religion. Yet, here we are with her trying force millions of us to do exactly that.
Then by her own standards she shouldn’t be a judge. She needs to resign from her position. She has no authority. She needs to stay at home and be a good dutifully wife to her husband.
No one’s making her be a judge. She can resign at any time.