Toledo Judge Refuses To Perform Gay Marriage…
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How ironic that this little outburst of petulance comes from the world's most famously well-tempered city.
Unless you mean some no-mark copycat Toledo 2.0?
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The one in Spain?
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Toledo, Ohio? I'm not surprised.
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Toledo Judge And Former President Of The Local NAACP Refuses To Perform Gay Marriage…
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He didn’t get the memo about the new civil rights movement.
Via The Columbus Dispatch
A northwest Ohio municipal judge assigned to a courtroom where civil marriages are performed refused to marry two women less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, the judge’s office confirmed on Wednesday.
Toledo Municipal Judge Allen McConnell was on a three-week rotation assigned to perform civil ceremonies on Monday when Carolyn Wilson and her partner asked to be married. McConnell acknowledged the decision in a Wednesday statement.
“On Monday, July 6, I declined to marry a non-traditional couple during my duties assignment,” he said. “The declination was based upon my personal and Christian beliefs established over many years. I apologize to the couple for the delay they experienced and wish them the best.”
On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the gay rights movement.
Toledo Municipal Court judges performed 98 marriages in 2014 and 49 marriages so far this year. Deputy court administrator Michael Zenk said the request by the women on Monday was the first time the court was asked to perform a same-sex marriage.
After McConnell refused, Judge William Connelly, Jr. performed the ceremony for the women, Zenk said.
Toledo Judge
He didn’t get the memo about the new civil rights movement.
Via The Columbus Dispatch
A northwest Ohio municipal judge assigned to a courtroom where civil marriages are performed refused to marry two women less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, the judge’s office confirmed on Wednesday.
Toledo Municipal Judge Allen McConnell was on a three-week rotation assigned to perform civil ceremonies on Monday when Carolyn Wilson and her partner asked to be married. McConnell acknowledged the decision in a Wednesday statement.
“On Monday, July 6, I declined to marry a non-traditional couple during my duties assignment,” he said. “The declination was based upon my personal and Christian beliefs established over many years. I apologize to the couple for the delay they experienced and wish them the best.”
On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the gay rights movement.
Toledo Municipal Court judges performed 98 marriages in 2014 and 49 marriages so far this year. Deputy court administrator Michael Zenk said the request by the women on Monday was the first time the court was asked to perform a same-sex marriage.
After McConnell refused, Judge William Connelly, Jr. performed the ceremony for the women, Zenk said.
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I imagine there will be consequences for the judge.
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why?
Not up to him who can and can't get married.
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After McConnell refused, Judge William Connelly, Jr. performed the ceremony for the women, Zenk said.
So whats the ISSUE?
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I don't know. I didn't start the thread. What is the issue here?
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I did read the story, but I didn't start a thread on it.
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He thinks the judge can't refuse to marry them, because the bakery can't deny them a cake.
The court didn't refuse them, only one judge. Just as a baker can refuse to bake a cake himself, and have one of the staff bake it instead.
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You're right, but what happens if you get an entire group that pulls this and they all refuse? Would have to be some repercussions then.
My thought was that you have to uphold the law, not personal views.
Righteously purposeful civil disobedience is now underway by individual liberty-lovers all over the USSA...
...and it will increase to such magnitude that lemmings won't be able to help themselves from wailing out for their statist masters to forcibly put down such intolerable dissent for the good of the collective.
What the lemmings don't even realize...
...is that such an unAmerican call will be for their own suicides.
Game on...
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LOL the same shit was said when interracial marriage was legalized.....some revolution you guys put up LMFAO!
Enjoy the peak of your religious revolt there weak sauce.....
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Most people do, but judges are expected to use their judgment whether to uphold laws or not. Civics 101.
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But their judgement is still based on and limited to....the law. Yes, there's room for interpretation, but if its a flat out "these people by law can be married" they can't just decide....um, no.
If that's the case a lot of time and money was wasted on this thing.
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How much time and money, exactly? He recused himself on Monday, and the couple have since been married.
Yeah, "they" can, you lying piece of malicious dumbfuck...
...precisely because the inherent individual liberty to do whatever an individual wants - good or bad - is naturally, totally, stronger than any law man can ever make.
You can make all the law you want, you can chain a man fully up, you can keep him in a 10x10 windowless cell the rest of his life: a lover of individual liberty will either kill himself or lose his mind...
...before he cedes what is not yours to take.
Your only other tyrannical piece of shit option to force him to do what he chooses not to do himself...
...is to kill him.
And that's how you statist pieces of shit are fucking up this world:
Instead of recognizing the full reality of natural law and learning (like with gravity) to live with it to progress for the natural benefit of all...
...you wannabe motherfuckers gotta imagine yourselves masters of nature itself, despite fully understanding - totally unlike the individual liberty lover - that you can't even begin to start your fail effort individually, that you must gather a like-minded tyrannical collective to gather the vicious force needed simply to imagine yourselves so wannabe badass.
You lemming pieces of shit are now miserably confronting your naturally failing utopia by trying to address the individual liberty problem on the front-end...
...that's why it's repugnantly declared "a right" to intentionally kill the most innocent individuals among us: so they have no chance of maturing into their natural individual liberty at all.
