....for State court system officials. Which, if you're a pol brainwashed by the unconstitutional doctrine of "judicial review," as virtually every pol in this country has been for the past 212 years, makes a perverse kind of sense:
North Carolina Goverrnor Pat McCrory has vetoed a religious exemption bill that would allow some court officials to avoid gay marriage duties.
The Republican governor announced his decision Thursday — hours after lawmakers gave their final approval to the measure. His office says he vetoed it shortly after the announcement. The legislature must decide whether to override that veto.
The bill gives magistrates and some registrar of deeds workers the ability to avoid duties for all marriages if they have a "sincerely held religious objection."
McCrory says he believes public officials who swear to support and defend the Constitution and to carry out their duties shouldn't be exempt from upholding their oath.
And Governor McCrory is including within that oath sodomarriage, assuming the SCOTUS imposes it nationwide next month. Which, constitutionally speaking, it has no legal authority to do. But it does have the power, and McCrory is already bowing down to it.
Which is a shame, really, because what the North Carolina legislature is attempting to do is pre-emptive nullification of any such pro-homo decree from Olympus - which they have EVERY (original) authority to do. And this bill would potentially give them quite a bit of leverage in this twilight death-struggle against cultural decay.
Of course, given the dominance over the culture that the Lavender Lobby has already seized, it could also backfire spectacularly and turn the entire population of North Carolina pro-dinnermasher, so perhaps Governor McCrory is also folding what he thinks is a losing hand. And he'd probably be right about that assessment.
But he should still have signed the bill.
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