There is a county in Kentucky in the US, where the County Clerk is refusing to issue marriage licenses to any couple, gay or straight because she believes that issuing marriage licenses to gay couples is a violation of her first ammendment rights.
However, her religious rights and freedoms are actually not being infringed upon. What are being infringed upon are the rights of all of those couples from whom she is withholding marrigage licenses. Her job is not religious in nature, she is not performing any religious rite or ritual, nor is she acting in any capacity as a religious leader. Her job is to perform the civil duty of issuing marriage licenses, something that the U.S. Supreme Court has now decided can be issued to same sex couples.
Even the Governor of the state agrees and has ordered her to issue the licenses as required by law, but she continues to refuse citing her religious beliefs. The US political system is designed to keep religion and politics apart, but time and time again, people with a religious agenda bring things to a grinding halt. Religous groups do not like being interfered with by government, so perhaps they should stop interfering in the good governence of the country.
This county clerk in Kentucky should just do her job, since it has absolutely nothing to do with religion and is a civil position, or she should just quit in protest. Either way, if she doesn't do her job, she should just go.
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