Tennessee governor signs bill allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages
Tennessee governor signs bill allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation s…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation states people “shall not be required to solemnize a marriage” if they refuse to doing so based on their “conscience or religious beliefs.” According to the Tennessee Legislature website, the governor signed the bill Wednesday.
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Sounds like a good reason for queer people to start getting jobs as county clerks in Tennessee so they can refuse to solemnize cishet marriages based on their conscience or religious beliefs.
Ooooh this is a great idea!
They'd have to do it very stealthily though. Pretend to be die-hard cishet Republicans until after the election. Santos them, but go even further than Santos did by pretending you aren't even queer.
I will take time out of my day and thank you. Fucking SMORT! Get'em girls!
This bill wouldn't protect a county clerk refusing to do the paperwork for a same sex marriage. It is supposed to protect ministers and churches that refuse to perform the wedding. Even if they tried to protect county clerks Kim Davis got a federal smackdown for doing the same thing so their protections would get preempted. Ultimately this is another performative piece of legislation. Nobody is suing hate-mongering preachers to force them to officiate a wedding.
Ministers and churches are not public officials.
Ministers and churches already had that right.
You are simply incorrect.
Yes I was, sorry. This is even more useless than I thought. The Kim Davis case has already established that public officials have an obligation to perform their duties without regard for the sexuality of the people they serve. The law has already been preempted by federal law and precedent in the 6th Circuit which is the appeals court with jurisdiction over Tennessee.
Really Mr. Woke Bond?
I cast “LGBTQ isn’t a conscience or religious stance in the State of Tennessee”.
Your move Mr. Bond….
"LGBT" doesn't have to be a conscience or religion belief. You can just state that heterosexual marriage against your beliefs.
I mean, heterosexuals do get the vast majority of divorces, and divorce is a sin...
Yep. Jesus had a lot to say about condemning divorce. He didn't really say anything about anything LGBT-related.
heterosexual 'relationships' cause more abortions
Man, gays must really scare you, huh?
"Mr. Woke Bond" is the best insult you can come up with?
That's pretty pathetic.
At least he recognizes himself as the evil villain in this situation
As per Poe's law, that might have been a joke. Well, it might've been not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Being against heterosexual marriage can certainly be a personal belief. It does not have to be a religious or conscience stance.
If you want a religious stance: refuse to marry people who have been divorced.
"Have you consummated your relationship?" Yes? I'm sorry, I can't approve of your marriage.
Which bond villain was a magician?
cringe
