Forcing someone? She's employed in a public service position and paid by the public means she serves people in all aspects codified by the job. If you can't, stop collecting your paycheck and go work in the private world, where you can deny anything you want because of your silly religious beliefs.

No. A priest, sure. They should only offer religious marriage to those who conform to the religion, whatever it is.

State licensing of the relationship, if offered at all, needs to be offered without discrimination. That is separation of church and state. An official of the state must officiate according to the law, not their own personal beliefs.

She wasn't being commissioned. She's a judge. It's her job. If a Muslim wanted a job at a butcher shop, that Muslim would have to be willing to handle haram meat as part of their job. You don't commission a butcher shop and you don't commission a judge.

Also, a marriage is a legal contract. This has nothing to do with art.

Per the NY bar, “you can get married by signing a written contract of marriage witnessed by two or more people. The contract must be acknowledged in front of a New York judge by the parties and witnesses.” Doesn’t sound like much more than acknowledging the process and signing the form by the judge. Is that art?

If you’re not willing to do part of a job (officiating at all NY-legal marriages) then don’t take the job. Or quit when you realize you won’t do the job.

Officiating a marriage is a “performance”.

What kind of bullshit argument is this? Taking the job is agreeing to make those "performances", as they are part of the job.

Would it be right to commission a Muslim painter to paint Mohammed, then sue them when they refuse on religious grounds?

What nonsense is this? Obviously he shouldn't have taken that commission!! If he does, it's perfectly reasonable to sue him for not doing the job he accepted and was paid for.

If it was simply signing another document on a stack with a dozen others, that would be different.

Nope, same thing. Part of the job.

Part of American democracy is that religion and governance is kept separate. What she is doing is undermining the democracy she works for. To favor her religious beliefs instead.
Unfortunately that is all to common for Christians, and they feel entitled to shit on everybody else.
But would you also find it OK if she issued death penalties for working on a Saturday? Should we just accept that?
Religion has no place in public service, and it's particularly despicable that a judge doesn't respect that. Her job is literally to uphold the law.

Crushingly idiotic take. You can argue that almost anything done with professional competence is a form of art. It's her fucking job. She can live her life according to her backward, dark age mythology on her own time.

Nothin but a lil troll

Additional issue - how can I trust a judge not to be biased if they can’t get past their own bigotry and do part of the job they were hired to do?

You either need to do more or less drugs. I'm not sure which.

Wasted time reading this thread, you write with the arrogance of the uninformed convinced it's deep thinking.