Gay Dallas Judge Won't Perform Straight Marriages

This judge should be thrown out...

A judge cannot allow personal feelings to influence the performance of his/her legal duties...

 

But if its not a duty as some have said then she's just annoying nothing more.

 

Not according to the Cardinal.
http://bostoncatholicinsider.wordpr...ey-to-the-nation-during-the-wednesday-debate/

 

It would be part of his/her job as a judge, I'd think...

Judges shouldn't allow personal feeling to influence their duties, and, if they do, ****...

 

It's not.

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No?

Judges perform marriages, no?

Obviously, this one does...

Otherwise, he/she wouldn't have been in the position to make this particular refusal...

As such, he/she would be making decisions baased on his/her personal feelings...

That's a no-no...

 

Because straight people ARE allowed to marry, she is breaking the law. It is discrimination. She swore to uphold the law and can be removed by the governor...if he has the cajones.

 

Removal would be the proper course of action...

 

Performing marriage ceremonies is one of a judges powers. It's not necessarily their duty. Just because a judge is able to perform a marriage doesn't mean that their job description necessarily requires them to do so. I'm not privy to this judge's contract or job description, but the article implies that it's not stated anywhere that she must perform these ceremonies as part of her job. It also implies that she's not the only one that doesn't. It's just that she's very public about the reasons behind her decision not to exercise that particular power.

 

Refusing one person something but granting it to another is discrimination under the eyes of the law.

 

Upon reading this more carefully:

it appears that she doesn't perform marriages at all...

If this is the case, I admit my error in judgment...

 

I agree, but she doesn't marry anybody. Even if she wanted to only marry homosexuals she couldn't. Homosexual marriage is illegal in Texas where she's a judge. That's the whole point.

 

The couples she refuses can see another judge and get married. I'm sure she's not the only judge in Texas. She is not necessarily a liberal judge. She distributes the law equally. That's not liberal that's fair as the courts should be.

If the Catholic church is in business and offer's insurance to their employees then it should be a standard contract. Why should the government care about what the church believes. You guy's are always moaning about separation. So their church business is separate. The business of doing business is not a religious function and should not have special favors.

 

That's 2 times in one day I agree with you. I'm going to excuse myself to look in the bathroom mirror to be sure I am still me. (lol)

 

Oh please, the church is always interfering in politics.

 

Makes no difference to me. We banned gay marriage in Texas so she can scream and cry all she likes

 

Your ban will eventually be overturned. As I recall you had an abortion case that your state ruled against call Roe V Wade and that was overturned as well.

 

lol you really enjoy threatening the will of the people don't you?

 

I love it when right-wingers get all bent out of shape when the consequences of their intolerance and bigotry come back to bite them in the ass.
You people have been hounding and demonizing gays for an eternity, and see nothing wrong with it, but you get apoplectic when the tables are turned.
The blacks didn't sit obediently at the back of the bus waiting for your compassion. They got in your face and fought for their civil rights.
Women didn't sit obediently in the kitchen waiting for men to treat them equally. They got in our face and fought for their rights.
Now gays are taking their struggle out of the closet and telling the bigots to (*)(*)(*)(*) off.
You are on the wrong side of history yet again, and the faux outrage and disingenuous posturing in the op is laughable.

 

LOL Try looking in the mirror when you speak of intolerance and bigotry

I love it when liberals get emotional. Being black is a genetic trait. Homosexuality is not yet liberals are DESPERATE to pretend it is. What's more amusing are the grand statements they make about being "tolerant" and think no one should be banned from marriage. But when you actually question them on ALL forms of marriage they start objecting to some of them. Surprise surprise. They aren't the tolerant and understanding gentle creatures they claim to be. They are just as bigoted and intolerant of others they dont agree with.

You liberals want to shock us conservatives? Pursue an Amendment. THAT it the only honest way to pass gay marriage. But you wont because you are 0-33 in direct voting by the people despite all your claims that gay marriage is accepted by a majority of Americans. Funny how that works

 

Sorry but I can't do that comparing gay rights to the civil rights movement...

Not the same animal at all...

 

Bigots have killed gays. Racists have lynched negroes. Both have been treated as third class citizens, with laws used to keep them oppressed.
You don't have to agree, but it don't change the facts.
Maybe now that you got yours, you don't really care about others still further down the ladder. That's between you and your conscience. But if you start throwing others under the bus, don't be surprised if you find yourself sitting at the back of the bus again one day.
It's not about you this time around, and gays are as tired as blacks and women were of being treated unfairly.
Don't expect them to bend over and take it any more than the negroes and women did.
I await the inevitable diarrhea of puerile retorts from the idiot right regarding my previous sentence.

 

I got mine?

What do you mean???

I'm Hispanic, and folks are really angry with Mexicans right now, but, that's another story...

Anyway, there has never been any systematic oppression & murder of gays in this country...

So, it's not the same...

Do I think gays are being denied rights that they should be allowed?

Yes, I do...

Are they being systematically hung from trees, burned alive, castrated, tarred, beaten, made to work in fields for zero wages, made to sit in the back of buses, having fire hoses turned on them, being attacked by dogs, all because of their sexual orientation?

Ever seen a Gays Only water fountain or bathroom???

Absolutely not, and, as such, it is not the same thing, and I'm not throwing anyone under the bus for believing that...

It's just the facts...

 

Maybe myopic facts, but not reality, or even a very intelligent position.

This reminds me of the joke about the girl who was propositioned by a man who asks her if she will (*)(*)(*)(*) him for one million dollars, and she says yes.
Then he asks her if she will do it for 10 dollars, and she refuses, saying, what sort of person do you think I am?
He replies, we have already established what you are, and now we are just haggling over the price.

Your studious nitpicking over details means that you aren't really against oppression, just the most extreme forms that apply to blacks.
But oppression is a monster that grows if not confronted.

And you conveniently forget that gays have suffered at the hands of intolerant bigots for millennia, and have been stoned to death, burned at the stake, and have had countless other atrocities visited on them by bigots all over the world.

I think blacks might lose a pissing contest with them about who has been screwed more by bigots.

 

We're talking about in the US...

And gays have not suffered anything close to the type of oppression that Black people have in this country...

Sorry...