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Tennessee

Wingus Dingus

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9. That's how I see it. If the state gives elected officials within the state

Reply to hippywife (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 10, 2023, 12:37 PM

Mar 2023

the power to refuse marriages based on personal feelings, then it's ultimately the state that is denying gay/interracial/transgender people their rights, not individuals.

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TN to refuse to marry same-sex, mixed-race, transgender couples [View all] Duppers Mar 2023 OP

Have they ever heard of equal rights under the law.... Karadeniz Mar 2023 #1

Misleading Subject line NoRethugFriends Mar 2023 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Duppers Mar 2023 #3

Sorry.... Duppers Mar 2023 #4

No worries NoRethugFriends Mar 2023 #7

"The bill allows clerks to refuse, the state doesn't itself refuse." hippywife Mar 2023 #6

That's how I see it. If the state gives elected officials within the state Wingus Dingus Mar 2023 #9

You make another good point... hippywife Mar 2023 #10

The same way the south kept people of color from voting yaesu Mar 2023 #12

Incredible!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #5

The is another example of the loss of freedom that the religious nuts walkingman Mar 2023 #8

Yeah, but they still have to honor my Tennessee same-sex marriage. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2023 #11