Louisiana justice who refused interracial marriage resigns

[SirJosephPorter]

We discussed this topic a while ago in this forum. This is the post script to it. The offending justice has resigned.

Looks like justice was done after all.



Louisiana justice who refused interracial marriage resigns - CNN.com

 

[FiveParadox]

It had to be done.

In my view, religious officials (i.e., Church officials or their appropriate counterparts) are free to refuse to perform any ceremony that is not in accordance with their respective religions or offshoots thereof; that is fair and reasonable under the freedom of conscience and religion. However, it is very much a different issue when it is the Government of the United States of America, as an institution, declining to grant the benefits of civil marriage to two persons for any reason not expressly allowed by law. This justice, as a representative of the Government for the purposes of civil marriage licenses, made the right decision.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

We had the same issue here regarding gay marriage. There was some argument as to whether government employees should be permitted to refuse to marry gays. I don’t think they can.

 

[gopher]

He probably was going to face impeachment or recall. But he took the easy way out in order to preserve his pension rights.

 

[Colpy]

It had to be done.

In my view, religious officials (i.e., Church officials or their appropriate counterparts) are free to refuse to perform any ceremony that is not in accordance with their respective religions or offshoots thereof; that is fair and reasonable under the freedom of conscience and religion. However, it is very much a different issue when it is the Government of the United States of America, as an institution, declining to grant the benefits of civil marriage to two persons for any reason not expressly allowed by law. This justice, as a representative of the Government for the purposes of civil marriage licenses, made the right decision.

Exactly. Dead on.