Homosexuals File Suit to Challenge Law Allowing Judges to Opt-Out of Officiating ‘Gay Weddings’

By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network:

RALEIGH, N.C. — Several homosexuals in North Carolina have filed suit to challenge a law that was passed this year that allows judges to opt out of officiating “gay weddings” because of their religious convictions.

As previously reported, S.B. 2 was introduced earlier this year by Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, to allow magistrates to recuse themselves from officiating over the services, as well as to permit register of deeds workers to opt out of issuing licenses due to religious objections.

The bill comes with one condition: that the individual remove themselves from the marriage business altogether.

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