The Fight Continues

Three couples have filed a legal challenge to Senate Bill 2, a North Carolina law that allows some court officials to opt out of duties related to marrying gay and lesbian couples.

The bill became law in June after lawmakers overrode Republican Governor Pat McCrory's veto.

The law allows some register of deeds workers who assemble licenses and magistrates who solemnize civil marriages to stop performing all marriages if they have a “sincerely held religious objection.”

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are: Diane Ansley and Cathy McGaughey, a married couple; Carol Ann Person and Thomas Person, a married couple; and Kelley Penn and Sonja Goodman, an engaged couple.

Ansley and McGaughey were plaintiffs in one of the cases that struck down Amendment One, North Carolina's voter-approved constitutional amendment excluding gay couples from marriage, on October 10, 2014, General Synod of the United Church of Christ v. Reisinger.

“Senate Bill 2 expressly declares that their religious beliefs are superior to their oath of judicial office to uphold and support the federal constitution,” said Luke Largess, lead counsel in Ansley v. North Carolina. “And the law spends public money to advance those religious beliefs. That is a straightforward violation of the First Amendment.”

LGBT advocates the Campaign for Southern Equality and Equality NC are coordinating the campaign that will accompany the case.

My guess is, they should actually read their Bible instead of believing what some old asshat tells them it says. 

Romans 13:

1 Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.

2 So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.