Texas judge warned about not conducting same-sex ‘weddings’
A judge who received a public warning from the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct for recusing herself from conducting same-sex weddings has filed a lawsuit against the censuring agency.
The judge, the Honorable Dianne Hensley, was cited in the warning for performing opposite-sex weddings while declining to perform same-sex “wedding” ceremonies because “her conscience and religion prohibited her from officiating same-sex weddings.”
The state agency concluded that Hensley “should be publicly warned for casting doubt on her capacity to act impartially to persons appearing before her as a judge due to the person's sexual orientation,” despite the fact she provided a list of others who happily conduct same-sex “weddings.”...