US judge launches legal challenge for real marriage
A Texas judge has launched legal proceedings against the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for subjecting a judge to disciplinary action because she believes marriage is between one man and one woman.
Judge Brian Umphress filed the case after the Commission told fellow judge Dianne Hensley that her impartiality towards homosexual litigants was under question, because she does not officiate at same-sex weddings due to her Christian beliefs.
The Commission claimed Hensley violated part of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct which states: “A Judge shall conduct all of the judge’s extra-judicial activities, so they do not cast reasonable doubt on the judge’s capacity to act impartially as a judge.”...