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If the Judicial Conduct Commission is correct—that is, if | |||
Obergefell ushered in an era in which judges who publicly espouse | |||
traditional Christian beliefs are unfit for the robe—then yet another | |||
deeply rooted constitutional principle comes into view. “No religious test | |||
shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in | |||
this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account | |||
of his religious sentiments . . . .”8 TEX. CONST. art. I, § 4. Judge Hensley | |||
has been the target of a punitive administrative apparatus with the | |||
power, ultimately, to exclude her from holding office. This has happened | |||
“on account of [her] religious sentiments”—not on account of rude or | |||
insulting or unprofessional words or actions towards anybody of any | |||
sexual orientation | |||