“Only a lawyer could fail to appreciate the decisive clarity of so simple and useful a word as ‘no,’” Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock wrote in response to a “Motion for Clarification” filed by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
The Texas Supreme Court issued the “no” answer in January in response to a certified question by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit: “Does Canon 4A(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct prohibit judges from publicly refusing, for moral or religious reasons, to perform same-sex weddings while continuing to perform opposite-sex weddings?”
