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Tennessee GOP quietly overturns marriage equality by giving officials the right to refuse
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I REFUSE to sign off on Republican Marriages!
You should actually try to get the job and do just that
Anyone can sign up to be a minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and legally perform marriages. I did and have. I don't know why you'd do it if your goal is to just not marry people, though.
In this case to make them repeal this idiocy by making it backfire on them. Malicious compliance
Specifically though to give the asshats that did this a taste of their own medicine
Most of the time a LEGAL marriage has nothing to do with a church/minister/religion at all. It's 100% a 'state' thing for filing of taxes, courtroom protections, power of attorney etc. Getting married in a church doesn't grant any of those things. Having a piece of paper from your 'state' is what makes it legal in the government's eyes. If the government won't sign off, you're not LEGALLY married, just socially.
Right. As a minister performing a marriage, your legal responsibility is just to sign as a witness on a marriage license. To do so, you have to be one of a handful of classes of people who can do it. Religious authorities are one of those. My registration with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster makes me such a person, enabling me to wed folks.