McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsuit after a state agency warned her about refusing to marry gay couples. She hopes a recent U.S. Supreme Court case about religious freedom helps her cause.

  • @[email protected]
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    421 year ago

    A judge isn’t a privately owned business. If the judge really thinks it’s the same thing, they need to be disbarred

    • elscallr
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      1 year ago

      I’m always on the side of a clergy who doesn’t want to perform a marriage for any reason, but this isn’t that. This person is a public office and their personal opinions don’t enter into it, full stop.

      I’m with you. This judge should be impeached and have their law credentials revoked. They’re failing to perform the duties of their office, they get fired.

      • parrot-party
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        71 year ago

        Unfortunately, there’s no requirement for credentials to be a judge. It’s typically lawyers but they don’t have to be.

        • elscallr
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          31 year ago

          That’s a fair point. Perhaps disbarment would be purely punitive, if they in fact have law credentials, but at least they should be impeached. This is absolutely cause for removal from the bench.

    • Flaky_Fish69
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      71 year ago

      Disbarred and maybe get all their previous rulings looked at. maybe retried.

      it’s texas, though. Chances are they’re gonna give that guy a medal. or something.

  • Athena5898
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    321 year ago

    btw, not that it’s surprising, but the entire SCOTUS decision was founded on a fucking lie. No one sued that woman and it’s pretty common knowledge if you look just slightly. So of course this fucker is hoping it will “help them fight”. Fuck these homophobic assholes

  • BraveSirZaphod
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    141 year ago

    She must not be a particularly good judge, because that ruling has next to no relevance at all.

  • Yewb
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    131 year ago

    I wonder how the Supreme court will write the ruling so it only applies to the Christian region, we cant have those satanist making us look more foolish!

  • HubertManne
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    81 year ago

    I hate working to but my boss is always like I have to and junk. Imma take it to supreme court to.