Quote:You and me both. If we're being honest, the right verdict would have been that instituionalizing marriage was a violation of the separation of church and state, and governments should issue civil unions to any couple that wanted one, but the term "marriage" would be left to the private sector.

Quote:It's already separated.  You can get married without going to a church. My wife and I didn't get married in a church.   Even if you do go to a church for it to be legal, you have to go to the government to get the document signed.


That's what this woman was refusing to sign.  The document making their marriage legal.  She wasn't performing any ceremony.  They were filing for licenses.

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U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis on Aug. 12 to resume issuing marriage licenses, saying that her personal religious objection to same-sex marriage did not supersede her public duty to issue marriage licenses. He jailed her for contempt Thursday because she refused to comply.