North Carolina Governor Vows to Veto a Bill Seen as Targeting Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com

North Carolina Governor Vows to Veto a Bill Seen as Targeting Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com: "In a sharp rebuff to lawmakers in his party, North Carolina’s Republican governor said on Thursday that he would veto a measure to allow certain public officials to refuse to perform marriage ceremonies on the basis of their religious beliefs.

The proposal, written by one of the General Assembly’s most influential Republicans, would allow magistrate judges “to recuse from performing all lawful marriages” if they harbored “any sincerely held religious objection.”"

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