disneydiversity:I stumbled across this on Facebook this evening and right off the bat it seemed high
disneydiversity:I stumbled across this on Facebook this evening and right off the bat it seemed highly fucking suspect to me. I mean right away, you can see they were careful not to mention what exactly it was Kim Davis wasn’t doing - issuing marriage licenses. So, like, let’s get this out of the way first: weddings =/= marriages. A wedding is an optional ceremony. You do not need a wedding to reap the benefits that marriage provides. You do, however, need a marriage license. K? K.I decided to do some further fact checking.Turns out all Tonya Parker did was decline to perform an aspect of her job that was optional. Optional. You know, versus the required part of Kim Davis’s job where she’s supposed to issue marriage licenses? To all couples, because marriage is a constitutionally protected right for everyone.On top of that, Parker also made sure that heterosexual couples were directed to a judge who would perform the ceremony for them. So she wasn’t actually standing in the way of any couples wanting to get married, where as Kim Davis was.Parker did this in order to make a point about marriage inequality in Texas, where same sex marriage was not legal.So next time you see someone post this on social media, go ahead and hit them with a large dose of that’s not fucking true you fucking breadcrumb.Okay yeah, like if we were going to keep track of every bigot who is turning down same-sex ceremonies, weddings, etc. then they would be all over the place. Christian pastors say “no” all the time. -- source link
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