‘All with Bible-based beliefs against participation in same-sex weddings are branded’
By Bob Unruh
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A Texas judge has sued the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct over the panel’s decision to threaten her for adhering to her Christian beliefs in decisions regarding weddings.
And the legal experts at William J. Olson P.C., have filed a friend-of-the-court brief explaining the commission’s actions amounted to an unconstitutional religious test for office.
The case involving Dianne Hensley now is pending before the state Supreme Court.
The situation is that Hensley is a justice of the peace in McLennan County and as such, is given the option by state law to perform weddings or not. Before the U.S. Supreme Court created, in a decision described as unconnected to the Constitution, the status of same-sex “marriage” for the nation she routinely performed ceremonies.
After, because of her Christian beliefs, she would perform ceremonies for man and woman couples, and would refer same-sex duos to others to perform ceremonies.