Posted on 05/13/2016 5:37:58 AM PDT by milton23
state agency wants to remove a small-town judge in Wyoming from two posts because she told a reporter that her religious beliefs would prevent her from solemnizing same-sex marriages.
In her full-time responsibilities, Municipal Judge Ruth Neely isnt authorized to preside over marriages. In part-time duties on the local Circuit Court, though, she could be asked to do so.
Now supporters across Wyoming and the nation are siding with Neely as she asks the Wyoming Supreme Court to prevent the state Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics from ending her 21-year career as a municipal judge in Pinedale, a town with a population of 2,030 just south of Yellowstone National Park.
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Judge Ruth Neeley: A cause we can believe in.
Sorry for the original mis-spelling
And the Fascists demand that you adhere to their way of thinking, or be removed and isolated.
Fascism is sweeping our nation through the Democratic Party and the nation is blind to it
Hooray for Ruth.
And gutless Republican leaders do nothing.
“You vill do vat der Fuehrer tells you to do! Verstehen?”
20-1-101 Marriage a civil contractMarriage is a civil contract between a male and a female person to which the consent of the parties capable of contracting is essential.
Wyoming Code - Title 20: Domestic Relations - Chapter 1: Husband and Wife - Article 1: Creation of Marriage (C.L. 1876, ch. 81, § 1; R.S. 1887, § 1541; R.S. 1899, § 2955; C.S. 1910, § 3891; C.S. 1920, § 4955; R.S. 1931, § 68-101; C.S. 1945, § 50-101; W.S. 1957, § 20-1; Laws 1977, ch. 152, § 1; Rev. W.S. 1957, § 20-1-101.)
"...a civil contract between a male and a female..."
As I recall, SCOTUS invalidated that.
If the present law, a definition of marriage, is invalid and hasn't been replaced by a new law, a new definition of marriage, how can anyone be legally married and how can anyone be punished for refusing to solemnize a marriage?
Haven’t had the issue here in Texas yet, but as a municipal court judge, I just don’t do weddings at all. Equal protection, don’cha know...
I don’t like the word “Solemnizing”.
The members of that judicial commission are in the wrong state. They need to tread very, very carefully whenever they leave Cheyenne.
Her big mistake was trusting a gerbilist.
Is this just more “gay marriage not affecting anyone else?”
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