Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ® signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.

State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation states people “shall not be required to solemnize a marriage” if they refuse to doing so based on their “conscience or religious beliefs.” According to the Tennessee Legislature website, the governor signed the bill Wednesday.

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    Sounds like a good reason for queer people to start getting jobs as county clerks in Tennessee so they can refuse to solemnize cishet marriages based on their conscience or religious beliefs.

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    What a great opportunity for the Supreme Court to uphold this law and then cry about how nobody thinks they’re credible anymore.

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    It’s pretty easy to get registered to perform weddings in TN… And many other states.

    Universal life Church is well known online ordination “place” that has been accepted with zero scrutiny in two other states by me and in TN by a friend.

    I’ll just leave this info here, do with it what you will.