We knew it wasn’t going to end with a wedding website designer: A Texas judge is suing a state judiciary oversight commission for admonishing her in 2019 for refusing on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to LGBTQ couples, saying that the recent Supreme Court ruling supported her position, the Texas Tribune reports.
Waco judge Dianne Hensley seeks $10,000 from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for damaging her professional reputation and violating her civil rights, saying she was proven right by the Supreme Court upholding the Colorado web designer’s right to discriminate against a fictional gay couple for a market she didn’t serve at the time of her lawsuit.
However, the Commission only cited her for violating the oath of office Hensley voluntarily took when she became a judge in Texas (and throughout the country) which requires them to “impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me” on the bench.
In other “Homophobes Get Their Comeuppance” news, the Michigan salon whose owner posted that they would no longer serve LBGTQ+ people–before clarifying her statement that she was only going to discriminate against the TQ+ community; the LBG were fine–is now without the top hair product brand it used. In an Instagram post, the Jack Winn Pro Client line of hair products announced it was pulling its products from Studio 8 Hair Lab saying, “Our core values center around fostering a safe and welcoming space for everyone, free from prejudice and bigotry.” Looks like there’s room in the market for MyPillow’s MAGA Hair by Trump to slip in.