[alexander_busek]

The Texas Supreme Court has approved a rule change permitting judges to decline to perform same-sex marriages, citing religious objections.

Sorry, but I strongly disagree!

As absurd and unnatural as I find homosexual "relations," a civil wedding is not a religious act. If the given jurisdiction says that two gays can legally enter into a marriage, then the judge must comply - or lay down his office.

Regards,

[caddie]

I respectfully disagree for this reason: If this judge gets herself off the hook, then, the wedding-cake bakers and everyone else in the private sector ought to be able to recuse themselves from gay enterprises like this.

Which all goes back to our rights to free association, which have been trampled on for the past 100 years. We are starting to regain them.

[Fai Mao]

I agree with you.the judge is not a religious figure, but a secular one. As distasteful as it is she should have performed the ceremony. If she can’t then she needs another job.

[Persevero]

Marriage is the foundation of all civil society and is peerless for the thriving of the human race. Redefining it was illogical, immoral, and criminal. No matter what your religion. It is indeed a civil and legal matter with almost infinite implications and must be recognized as such not redefined into oblivion.