North Carolina Judges' Religious Freedom Safe... for Now

Bob Eschliman : Sep 22, 2016
Charisma News

Those who opt-out may not perform any marriages for six months, after which time they can abstain from same-sex "marriages" permanently.

(North Carolina)—[Charisma News] A law passed in 2015 that allowed judges and other magistrates who perform marriages to opt-out of performing same-sex "marriages" on faith-based grounds survived its first legal challenge this week. (Photo: Reuters/via Charisma News)

But it may not survive the next one.
 
U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn dismissed a case brought by several people who say, as taxpayers, their tax dollars were being misspent in conjunction with the law. While suggesting that element of Senate Bill 2—not to be mistaken for House Bill 2, also known as the "bathroom bill"—could cause "real or emotional harm" to citizens, he said the plaintiffs had not established enough evidence that they were directly harmed by the law.
 
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