The young man who answered identified himself as a reporter from the local newspaper. He told Neely he was doing a story on the administrative challenges of the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Wyoming. He asked the town judge whether she was “excited” about the prospect of solemnizing same-sex marriages. dailysignal.com/2016/06/13/3-people-behind-the-effort-to-remove-judge-for-her-views-on-marriage
“I will not able to do them,” Neely replied, according to the story Donovan later wrote. “We have at least one magistrate who will do same-sex marriages, but I will not be able to.” Neely cited her religious belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
As Pinedale’s full-time municipal judge, Neely, who is in her early 60s, isn’t authorized to solemnize marriages. As a part-time circuit judge in Wyoming’s Sublette County, her lawyers say, agreeing to officiate at a wedding was up to her—as it is for other circuit judges.