Texas Judge Brian Umphress Is Suing For the Right to Ignore the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Texas Judge Brian Umphress Is Suing For the Right to Ignore the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Brian Umphress is a state court judge in Jack County, Texas, who in the year of our Lord 2025 still refuses to officiate same-sex marriages. Umphress says that he opposes Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that recognized marriage as a fundamental right, “not only on account of his Christian faith, but also because same-sex marriage remains illegal under the laws of Texas.” The fact that same-sex marriage remains legal under t…