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05-03-15, 03:42 AM
NOW JUDGES SUE OVER SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE'
Complaint demands state {North Carolina} follow its own constitution
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The rapid expansion of same-sex “marriage” state by state has been fueled by federal court rulings that conflict with voter initiatives.
But as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue, some state judges are fighting back, arguing that the institution that predates government should not be cast aside for current social trends.
Two former North Carolina magistrates, for example, claim in a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court that they were forced to quit their jobs because court administrators ordered them to perform same-sex weddings.
They want the state to follow its own constitution and return them to their jobs with an acknowledgment that they are not required to perform weddings for same-sex duos.
Of the 36 states that have legalized same-sex marriage, about two dozen were ordered by a single judge.
There was significant resistance in only one state. The Alabama Supreme Court told its judiciary in February that U.S. District Judge Callie Granade’s order to issue a marriage license to two men doesn’t change the state’s law and constitution.
The Alabama justices ordered state judges to abide by the state constitution, which recognizes marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.
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A Woman of Grace blog post at the time the controversy developed in 2014 said it actually was six judges who resigned over the issue, though only two are suing so far.
Breedlove, who also is a Baptist minister, said at the time: “I had no choice but to resign. I couldn’t in good conscience (officiate at a same-sex wedding) and still hold my head up as a pastor and preacher of the Word of God,”
(More... (http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/now-judges-sue-over-same-sex-marriage/))
[Could it be that the Gay Agenda is part of a strategy to depose civil government throughout the United states of America? Is Edom aiming to throw off Jacob's yoke?]
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Now Judges Sue Over Same-Sex "Marriage": Complaint Demands State Follow Its Own Constitution (http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/now-judges-sue-over-same-sex-marriage/)
Complaint demands state {North Carolina} follow its own constitution
2558
The rapid expansion of same-sex “marriage” state by state has been fueled by federal court rulings that conflict with voter initiatives.
But as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue, some state judges are fighting back, arguing that the institution that predates government should not be cast aside for current social trends.
Two former North Carolina magistrates, for example, claim in a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court that they were forced to quit their jobs because court administrators ordered them to perform same-sex weddings.
They want the state to follow its own constitution and return them to their jobs with an acknowledgment that they are not required to perform weddings for same-sex duos.
Of the 36 states that have legalized same-sex marriage, about two dozen were ordered by a single judge.
There was significant resistance in only one state. The Alabama Supreme Court told its judiciary in February that U.S. District Judge Callie Granade’s order to issue a marriage license to two men doesn’t change the state’s law and constitution.
The Alabama justices ordered state judges to abide by the state constitution, which recognizes marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.
...
A Woman of Grace blog post at the time the controversy developed in 2014 said it actually was six judges who resigned over the issue, though only two are suing so far.
Breedlove, who also is a Baptist minister, said at the time: “I had no choice but to resign. I couldn’t in good conscience (officiate at a same-sex wedding) and still hold my head up as a pastor and preacher of the Word of God,”
(More... (http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/now-judges-sue-over-same-sex-marriage/))
[Could it be that the Gay Agenda is part of a strategy to depose civil government throughout the United states of America? Is Edom aiming to throw off Jacob's yoke?]
Related:
Now Judges Sue Over Same-Sex "Marriage": Complaint Demands State Follow Its Own Constitution (http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/now-judges-sue-over-same-sex-marriage/)