Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ® 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.
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.
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.
“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…
“Mr. Woke Bond” is the best insult you can come up with?
That’s pretty pathetic.
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.
These people think about gay people more than gay people think about gay people.
The GOP hate/persecution list:
HOMELESS, IMMIGRANTS, DRUG ADDICTS, BLACK PEOPLE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE, GAY PEOPLE, UNIONISTS, SOCIAL DEMOCRATS:
https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/
You don’t have to leave out Jews just because they aren’t the Nazis from Germany.
After all… “Jews will not replace us.” Something said by those very nice people on one of the both sides.
(Muslims too, don’t mean to leave you folks out, you’re also victims of the Republican hate machine.)
The people who vote for them are ignorant and angry, and the people who fund the gop are the only people who benefit from their policies.
Didn’t this already get knocked down in another state?
Edit: Kim Davis in Kentucky tried this and failed.
And is now fined over $100k for her bullshit LOL. Who’s going to be the next idiot to throw their life savings away?
Life savings? Governor? No sir, that was a couple years’ savings at most (I assume. Most politicians like that might not be paid EXTREME amounts for their public office, but their speaking engagements and stock portfolios are no joke)
It’s pretty easy to get registered to perform weddings in TN… And many other states.
Universal life Church is well known online ordination “place” that has been accepted with zero scrutiny in two other states by me and in TN by a friend.
I’ll just leave this info here, do with it what you will.
