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TexasTowelie

(111,319 posts)
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 05:57 AM Sep 2016

Judge dismisses challenge to NC gay-marriage law

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has upheld a North Carolina law that allows magistrates to refuse to marry same-sex couples by citing religious beliefs.

The judge in Asheville dismissed a lawsuit filed by three couples, two gay and one interracial. The judge ruled that the couples lacked legal standing as taxpayers to sue and lacked evidence showing they were harmed directly by the law taking effect in June 2015. Still, U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn wrote there is potential someone could suffer real harm because of the law.

The plaintiffs' lawyers a notice Wednesday that they'll appeal Tuesday's ruling to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

North Carolina is one of only two states with such religious-objection laws that are being enforced. About 5 percent of North Carolina's magistrates have filed recusal notices.

Read more: http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20160921/judge-dismisses-challenge-to-nc-gay-marriage-law

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Judge dismisses challenge to NC gay-marriage law (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
These are public officials and it is a slippery slip to allow this to happen. riversedge Sep 2016 #1
If these public officials have personal reasons why they cannot perform their official duties TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #2

TexasTowelie

(111,319 posts)
2. If these public officials have personal reasons why they cannot perform their official duties
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 06:26 AM
Sep 2016

then they should resign. It's part of their job and anybody in the private sector that refused to fulfill their commitments would be fired.

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