WACO, Texas (AP) | The Texas agency that investigates judicial misconduct issued a public warning to a justice of the peace who has refused to perform same-sex weddings.
In its warning, made public Dec. 2, the Texas Commission on Judicial Misconduct said McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley has refused to perform same-sex weddings since August 2016, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision a year earlier that established the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Some other justices of the peace in the county stopped performing weddings altogether after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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