“I did not however take that oath with any understanding that I would be required to marry same sex couples.”
— John Kallam, Jr., a magistrate in Rockingham County, North Carolina, in his resignation letter. “When I took my oath of office, I understood I would be required to perform weddings and have done so throughout my tenure,” Kallam wrote. He continued by adding that, due to his faith, marrying a same-sex couple “would desecrate a holy Institution established by God Himself.” Same-sex marriage was legalized in North Carolina last week following a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Max Cogburn, in which he determined the state’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman to be unconstitutional. (Rockingham Now)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a Catholic who is one of the high court's most doctrinaire conservatives, says in a new book that the court's decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
Alito, who dissented in the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case, made the claim in a speech at Catholic University of America (CUA) three years after the decision. The remarks were published in So Ordered, a collection of the justice's speeches that he says reflect his judicial philosophy and views of the United States.
The Thomas More Society is threatening to sue the Wake County Public School System unless it allows a group of parents to remove their children from a required music class taught by a transgender teacher at Middle Creek Elementary School in Apex, North Carolina.
The right-wing law firm, which advocates for religious exemptions for opponents of LGBTQ rights, sent a letter to the district outlining several additional demands, including written assurances that students will not be disciplined for misgendering the teacher.
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