Pre-filed bill would allow discrimination in performing marriage

Alaska Rep. Dave Talerico, a Republican from Healy, has pre-filed a bill that would allow those authorized to perform marriages to turn away couples.
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“(It) relieves them of any potential liability that they might be sued or required or forced to do something that they don’t choose to do… that’s outside of their faith.”
Talerico says that includes the right to turn down gay couples.
“We always want to separate church from state,” he says.