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Syracuse City Court Judge Felicia Pitts Davis refused to officiate a same-sex wedding, citing religious beliefs.

Another judge, Mary Anne Doherty, performed the ceremony.

Pitts Davis’ actions, considered discriminatory under New York judicial ethics and the Marriage Equality Act, are under review by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct

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The Bible endorses abortion

Let’s not pretend most Christians have even read the Bible, let alone understand or follow it.

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Yes absolutely, that’s the most crazy part. A method of abortion where the woman is at high risk of dying!
But that only “proves” she was guilty of adultery!

Christians are insane IMO.

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As a pro-choice guy, where in the Bible is this little gold nugget?

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Numbers 5 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

It’s in response to a woman being unfaithful to her husband.

Of course, in reality the concoction does nothing, but the point of the Bible passage is literally an abortion.

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It’s true on a technicality. The idea was if a woman is accused of adultery, they had her drink magical abortion water, and it would only work if she had actually cheated.

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I’m not sure what you mean “on a technicality” instead of merely “It is true”.

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Hosea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”

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