Posted on 07/08/2015 1:38:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
“It is the policy of the court to accommodate wedding requests and we will continue to do that for both opposite and same-sex marriage,” Zenk said.
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Yes, a must read.
1933 Germany v the US today. The parallels are astounding.
state sanctioned marriage vs God sanctioned marriage
“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Here’s the thread
The Stupidity of Sophisticates ... Mark Steyn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309031/posts
I’ve been hoping and praying something like this would happen and am still hoping and praying that we hear more of this happening.
Styne is always good.
(Still shaking my head in disbelief..)
AZ,
“I’ve been hoping and praying something like this would happen and am still hoping and praying that we hear more of this happening.”
Lucy,
“And, friends, it’s JUST STARTING!”
The main enemy of the USA is its media. They will not say a thing about illegal aliens killing and raping Americans, but they’ll jump up and down on anyone opposing their agenda, especially reinforced lately by some black robes, under which weird genitalia reside.
Too much domestic and foreign embarrassing problems for the thin-skinned regime will get valjar mad enough to go for martial law and accelerate the communist agenda implementation.
It just happens that Jade Helm 15 is around the corner. If it’s part of the military, I wonder if the “other” part, which is a majority, will take this kindly and let this criminal regime pummel us.
Remains to be seen.
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