TN to refuse to marry same-sex, mixed-race, transgender couples

[Duppers]

TN House passes bill allowing courts to refuse to marry same-sex, mixed-race, transgender couples.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/8/2156904/-Tennessee-passes-bill-allowing-courts-to-refuse-to-marry-same-sex-mixed-race-transgender-couples

UNBELIEVABLE!!

On edit: As poster below noted, this is NOT YET a law.

(My apologies if this is a re-post.)

Copied from DK article:

If there ever was a time to boycott a state, now would be it. On Monday, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a law that allows county clerks to refuse to marry same-sex, transgender, and mixed-race couples if they disagree with the union, The New Republic reports.

The bill, which now moves to the state Senate, reads: “a person shall not be required to solemnize a marriage if the person has an objection to solemnizing the marriage based on the person’s conscience or religious beliefs.

[Karadeniz]

1. Have they ever heard of equal rights under the law....

[NoRethugFriends]

2. Misleading Subject line

The bill has not yet been passed or signed (though it might be).
The bill allows clerks to refuse, the state doesn't itself refuse.
The bill does not mention the classes you cite.
It is of course aimed at two of the classes you cite, but not the third, though it is so vague it could be applied in any way. A gay clerk could have a moral objection against a straight couple.

[Duppers]

4. Sorry....

I did not write this article.


Bet are on, they pass this bill. My birth state is doing its damnedest to turn back the clock as far as it (they) can.

[NoRethugFriends]

7. No worries

My state (PA) is doing a bit better these days)

[hippywife]

6. "The bill allows clerks to refuse, the state doesn't itself refuse."

If the clerk, employed by the state and paid by taxpayers, refuses, then the state has refused.

[Wingus Dingus]

9. That's how I see it. If the state gives elected officials within the state

the power to refuse marriages based on personal feelings, then it's ultimately the state that is denying gay/interracial/transgender people their rights, not individuals.

[hippywife]

10. You make another good point...

that these people many times aren't just bodies filling clerical positions, they are actually elected, making it even more so that the state would be rejecting their duties.

[yaesu]

12. The same way the south kept people of color from voting

Individuals with the power to take away a person's constitutional right. We need a strong central government to fight these fascist states, we seem to have a paper tiger Fed government

[RKP5637]

5. Incredible!!! n/t

[walkingman]

8. The is another example of the loss of freedom that the religious nuts

are causing around the country. As HIPPYWIFE stated earlier when someone acts on behalf of a State it should not be based upon religion or religious belief.

Without freedom from religion, there is no freedom of religion...

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Yeah, but they still have to honor my Tennessee same-sex marriage.

Because that is where it happened, where it was officiated over by a judge (a friend of mine for sure, but still a judge) and signed and all that. They issued it and it is still valid. So, those hillbilly rethugs can SUCK it. (Oh wait, they don't do that...).

I am hoping that the good people of Tennessee can reclaim their state from the insanity that is Republicanism.