Quote:Doesn't make you a bigot. Throwing around rhetoric about the "gay mafia" makes me question whether or not someone's inner bigot is showing, but disagreeing with the practice is your right.

 

That said, I've been in jobs before where the job description changed. The options presented to me in the private sector were "do it" or "get lost". In one instance, I chose to get lost because I considered the new expectation to be unethical, and I wasn't willing to do it based upon my own morals. I don't see why the rules should be any different for a county clerk issuing marriage licenses, regardless of reason. The Supreme Court has said that states must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The clerk's job is to issue those licenses. If a clerk chooses not to issue those licenses for any reason, religious or not, they should resign or be fired for failure to perform essential job duties. It really is that cut and dry. If you're not willing to do your job, stop wasting payroll and let someone who is willing to do it take over.

 

Yep. No different than a Clerk who has been in office since 1964. I doubt there are any, but apparently some on here would be ok with the Clerk denying services to "colored people" because, well that's the way it was always done.

 

I'd love to see the reaction of some on here if a government official denied them service because to the official it just didn't seem right. I think we'd see a three page post by FBT and flsprtsgod about the government being uppity and all.

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