An anonymous New York judge asked the New York Ethics Committee whether a judge can refuse to conduct the marriage of a gay couple? While the committee did not let its yes mean yes or its no mean no, Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice says they did “opine that the judge could choose to conduct only those weddings of his relatives and friends . . . tantamount, in the committee’s view, to refusing to conduct marriages ‘on a facially neutral basis’ and the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct do not require a judge to conduct weddings”:
