{"id":51739,"date":"2015-07-14T22:48:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/passive-aggressively-prejudiced.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:48:44","slug":"passive-aggressively-prejudiced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/passive-aggressively-prejudiced.html","title":{"rendered":"Passive-Aggressively Prejudiced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge James DePiazza &quot;respects&quot; everyone and acknowledges that same-sex couples have the right to marry &#8230; and so requires everyone to sign a form acknowledging that he disapproves of marriage between people of the same gender but will, graciously, marry them anyway. Oh, and not to discuss the matter with him. And no pictures.<\/p>\n<p>(The form is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/dentoncounty.com\/~\/media\/Departments\/Justice-of-Peace-Pcts\/Justice-of-the-Peace-Precinct2\/PDF\/Wedding-Letter-and-receipt_2015_07.pdf\">http:\/\/dentoncounty.com\/~\/media\/Departments\/Justice-of-Peace-Pcts\/Justice-of-the-Peace-Precinct2\/PDF\/Wedding-Letter-and-receipt_2015_07.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m pretty certain that adding extra paperwork wouldn&#39;t stand up in court, but regardless, he&#39;s being a hell of a jerk about it. I mean, I wonder how his immigrant forefather would have felt if he&#39;d had to sign a form saying, &quot;I acknowledge that the immigration supervisor allowing me into the country, Fred Smith, is required to allow in people from no matter where they come, within quotas set by the government, but, frankly, he&#39;d just as soon not let in any more Italians &#8212; he&#39;ll do it, but I now know he&#39;s against it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Texas-judge-asks-same-sex-couples-to-sign-form-6381862.php'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/_WrXyM7vkZv_ouIf5jLaHwgcBKTdTntxS7yWDv_j2LLgJT0N13m28mwGkiiV359Ao88iTdZlUg5J3Bv7xK4Stk7dpUGE24BWtAo=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Texas-judge-asks-same-sex-couples-to-sign-form-6381862.php'>Texas judge asks same sex-couples to sign form acknowledging he disapproves of same-sex marriage<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe document also has couples acknowledge that their ceremony will be &#8220;a brief formal declaration of civil marriage,&#8221; not the traditional marriage. It also prohibits photography of the ceremony, instead saying couples can use the courtroom to take pictures after their ceremony.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JMTvPT9RmKZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge James DePiazza &quot;respects&quot; everyone and acknowledges that same-sex couples have the right to marry &#8230; and so requires everyone to sign a form acknowledging that he disapproves of marriage between people of the same gender but will, graciously, marry them anyway. Oh, and not to discuss the matter with him. And no pictures. (The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/passive-aggressively-prejudiced.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passive-Aggressively Prejudiced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133962,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/the-trump-justice-dept-argues-the-civil-rights-act-doesnt-cover-homosexuals.html","url_meta":{"origin":51739,"position":0},"title":"The Trump Justice Dept. argues the Civil Rights Act doesn&#039;t cover &quot;homosexuals&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 11:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because as long as you're throwing transgender people under the bus, why not argue that there is no legal protection for sexual orientation?One of the legal developments over the last several years (i.e., under the Obama Administration) was the argument that discrimination based on sexual orientation was a form of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50202,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/scalia-has-an-odd-understanding-of-the-first-amendment.html","url_meta":{"origin":51739,"position":1},"title":"Scalia has an odd understanding of the First Amendment","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Apr-15 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or he's been reading too many Conservative Christian fear mags.As Justice Kagan noted, Jewish rabbis who choose not to marry mixed-religion couples are still licensed by the state to officiate at marriages. 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