Syracuse judge refuses to perform marriage for same-sex couple: ‘It was real weird’

If your “faith” prevents you from doing your public service job, get a different job.

It's so weird to see when I see members of one marginalized group further marginalizing another marginalized group rather than having solidarity.

2 women who marched for racial justice now will get to deliver it as Syracuse City Court judges

Shadia Tadros, 39, a first-generation Arab-American, and Felicia Pitts Davis, 52, a Black woman with parents from the Deep South, say they are arriving with a mandate: The status quo is over.

In the year of marches to address systemic racism in the justice system, they stand with the peaceful protesters. They marched, too.

Tadros and Davis — who point out they are different people with different backgrounds — share some goals on how they want to change the justice system.

It's so telling that these religious nut jobs never use their "deeply held beliefs" to feed, house, comfort, protect, and uplift those they are charged with governing.

Now someone trace back which republican donor group is propping her up to use this as fodder to ride up to the corrupted Supreme Court?

She’s a public servant. If she won’t serve the public, then she can GTFO.

So throw her off the bench for gross incompetence and failure to perform her sworn duties. Simple.

These religious nutjobs like to living and choose what parts of the Bible they'll follow when it's convenient. Apply their Christian principles to lending money.

Okay... My religion says I can't make my quota?.. I get fired. Public fucking servant?! That's tax dollars ffs!

And they’ll get a stern talking to.

Pretty weird for the judge to let their shitty religion decide how love works between two consenting adults.

Welcome back 2010

That is a lot of Davises

under review by the state commission on judicial conduct.

I'm sure the finger wagging they'll give her will be very firm.

Sounds like Felicia Pitts Davis needs to be removed from office.

The Paris commune had it right. All public officials should be removable at any time by public referendum. Nor should they ever make more than they people they serve.

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.

Officiating a marriage is a "performance". A kind of art. It's not substantially different than giving a speech, acting on stage, or playing music. And forcing people to perform something they don't believe in, is wrong.

Would it be right to commission a Muslim painter to paint Mohammed, then sue them when they refuse on religious grounds? Would it be right to tell them they have to do it, because they chose to paint portraits for a living?

If it was simply signing another document on a stack with a dozen others, that would be different. There is no art or creativity there. But telling somone they have to give a performance they aren't comfortable with, is wrong. You don't force actors to do love scenes against their will. This is substantially the same.