Syracuse judge refuses to perform marriage for same-sex couple: ‘It was real weird’
Syracuse judge refuses to perform marriage for same-sex couple: ‘It was real weird’
Felicia Pitts Davis performed a ceremony for a heterosexual couple but bailed out on two women waiting to be married, sources say.
Summary
Syracuse City Court Judge Felicia Pitts Davis refused to officiate a same-sex wedding, citing religious beliefs.
Another judge, Mary Anne Doherty, performed the ceremony.
Pitts Davis’ actions, considered discriminatory under New York judicial ethics and the Marriage Equality Act, are under review by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
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Since when does anyone claim the right to have a specific judge do the officiating? The couple had someone else do it and no harm.
Since when does anyone claim the right to have a specific cashier scan their groceries? The black man walked to another lane no harm.
This is what you sound like.
I can’t understand how it got to the point the couple found out. All the judge had to say was congratulations to them, but another judge was coming to allow her to do another duty then leave smiling.
Nobody would have been any the wiser and she could have kept whatever belief system she had intact without bothering anybody. Sure she’s still a bigot, but nobody’s big day would have been ruined.
Instead it looks like she felt the need to declare to the whole world that she objected to the union.
Weirdo