FUCK YOU!!! I should have expected this. IMO these people should be forced to marry them or get different jobs. That is part of their job. That's like a nurse or doctor refusing to care for someone who is gay. It's discrimination plain and simple. I feel the same way about pharmacists that won't give out the plan B pill. That happened in our area.
What a sweet looking couple below.
Same-sex marriage (US)
Gay marriage faces southern rebellion as couples hit state bureaucracy's wall
Texas and Louisiana officials given permission to deny same-sex couples licenses, citing religious freedom, but Alabama and Mississippi concede
After 54 years as a couple, George Harris, 82, and Jack Evans, 85, are married by a judge on Friday. The two were the first gay couple to be issued a marriage license and to be married in Dallas. Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP
Alan Yuhas in New York and
Tom Dart in New Orleans
Saturday 27 June 2015 12.44 EDTLast modified on Saturday 27 June 2015 12.45 EDT
Almost immediately after the supreme court on Friday
made same-sex marriage a right throughout the United States, conservative leaders around the south indicated they would resist the ruling with delay, bureaucratic niggling and circumvention of the verdict on religious grounds.
Texas governor Greg Abbott quickly gave state officials his tacit approval to deny same-sex couples marriage licenses should the officials object on religious grounds. On Friday, Abbott sent agencies
a memo, railing against “religious coercion” and citing the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, that directed them to take no action against any official “on account of the person’s act or refusal to act that is substantially motivated by sincere religious belief”.
“No Texan is required by the supreme court’s decision to act contrary to his or her religious beliefs regarding marriage,” Abbott said.
The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton,
urged county clerks not to issue licenses without his permission. Clerks in at least five counties heeded his warning. Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who
bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”. An octogenarian couple, together for more than 50 years,
promptly married in the Dallas courthouse.