{"id":15055,"date":"2025-10-31T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-supreme-court-allows-judges-to-refuse-performing-same-sex-marriages\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:20:41","slug":"texas-supreme-court-allows-judges-to-refuse-performing-same-sex-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-supreme-court-allows-judges-to-refuse-performing-same-sex-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Supreme Court allows judges to refuse performing same sex marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas judges and justices of the peace, who are legally allowed to perform wedding ceremonies, now will not face punishment if they refuse to perform a ceremony on the basis of a &#8220;sincerely held religious belief,&#8221; according to a new interpretation of the Judicial Code of Conduct issued by the Texas Supreme Court&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5582521-texas-supreme-court-allows-judges-to-refuse-performing-same-sex-marriages\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas judges and justices of the peace, who are legally allowed to perform wedding ceremonies, now will not face punishment if they refuse to perform a ceremony on the basis of a &#8220;sincerely held religious belief,&#8221; according to a new interpretation of the Judicial Code of Conduct issued by the Texas Supreme Court&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}