AFA of PA ACTION ALERTLancaster County magesterial districts

August 25, 2014

Issue

More PA Judges Say “No” to Performing Same-Sex “Marriages”

Details

In June more than eight York County District Judges said they would no longer perform marriages so as not to get involved in the “politics” of same-sex “marriage. Read the full story here

More recently  three Lancaster County district judges  have announced they will no longer perform marriages because of their religious convictions. Judges Joshua Keller, David Miller and Stuart Mylin have stopped performing all marriages. In the article, note the comment of Judge John C. Winters who says he has performed four or five same-sex “marriages” – the largest number noted in the article. “I thought at first (when same-sex marriages became legal here) it would be a surge, then a flattening off, but it’s just been a steady mixing of marriages,” he said. And why’s that? Because there are not that many same-sex couples wanting to marry! It will not have the great economic impact that proponents of same-sex marriage claim.

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