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
If your “faith” prevents you from doing your public service job, get a different job.
Separation of church and state!
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.
Food and house for me not thee
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?
This play is so obvious. The judge wants to be sued or reprimanded or removed to get the matter to the SCOTUS just so they can rule that gay people can’t get married if any official involved in the process objects on religious grounds.
So throw her off the bench for gross incompetence and failure to perform her sworn duties. Simple.
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.
Its not weird at all, religious people often use their beliefs to avoid doing their fucking job, whist also judging you.
Welcome back 2010
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That is a lot of Davises
Sounds like Felicia Pitts Davis needs to be removed from office.
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
