Marion County judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages

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http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2015/09/03/marion-county-judge-refuses-perform-same-sex-marriages/71665314/

PORTLAND, Ore. – A Marion County judge has refused to perform same-sex marriages and has asked his clerks to refer couples seeking same-sex marriages to other county judges.

Judge Vance Day, a circuit court judge and former chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, is now facing an ethics investigation over that decision, according to the judge’s spokesman.

Spokesman Patrick Korten said Day instructed his staff to tell couples that the judge will not perform same-sex marriages. The staffers were instructed to refer same-sex couples to other Marion County judges willing to issue them a marriage license.

Korten said Day took the action based on his “deeply-held religious beliefs.”

“It’s an exercise of his religious freedom rights under the First Amendment,” Korten said.

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Day hasn’t performed any same-sex marriages since he joined the bench in 2011, but only stopped doing marriages of any kind this past spring. Judges in Marion County are not required to perform marriages, and Marion County’s website lists five

[Paladin]

"That decision led to an ethics investigation by the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness, Korten said."

Here we go again.

Despite it's ultraliberal reputation in 2004 OR voters approved an initiative which stated, ""It is the policy of Oregon, and its political subdivisions, that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or legally recognized as a marriage." The initiative passed by a margin of 57% to 43%.

So what? In 2013 homosexual activists challenged the law and a federal judge, one black robed political appointee, ruled it unconstitutional and thus ruled the people of OR, all 57% of them, wrong.

Later the change was codified by the legislature and perhaps in the intervening years the residents of OR had changed in their opinion on same sex marriage. Perhaps, but one thing we do know for sure is that one judge, one, decided marriage policy in OR.

[libertybele]

Kim Davis, Judge Vance Day ... as many predicted this is just the beginning...

[EdinVA]

I thought all the jails were full?
Where are they going to put all these criminals... :)

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Answer: Article 5 convention of the states. America's last chance to rein in an out-of-control federal judiciary and fedgov.