Last month, the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a Public Warning (full text) to Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley. The Nov. 12 warning reads in part:
Beginning on about August 1, 2016, Judge Hensley and her court staff began giving all same-sex couples wishing to be married by Judge Hensley a document which stated “I’m sorry, but Judge Hensley has a sincerely held religious belief as a Christian, and will not be able to perform any same sex weddings.” The document contained a list of local persons who would officiate a same-sex wedding….
… Judge Hensley testified that she would recuse herself from a case in which a party doubted her impartiality on the basis that she publicly refuses to perform same-sex weddings…..
… [T]he Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined that the Honorable Judge Dianne Hensley … should be publicly warned for casting doubt on her capacity to act impartially to persons appearing before her as a judge due to the person’s sexual orientation in violation of Canon 4A(l) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.