Posted on 07/10/2015 6:35:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Supreme Court could not have been clearer when it ruled late last month that states may not refuse to marry same-sex couples.
But in several states where the resistance to marriage equality has been most entrenched, government officials whose job it is to license or perform marriages continue to misunderstand, stall or flatly defy the court. However they justify these tactics, their conduct is illegal and they must stop.
These public employees seem to forget that taxpayers pay them to do their job. If doing that job violates his or her religious beliefs, the best solution is to find another job, as several have done in the days since the Obergefell ruling.
Government employees do not have a constitutionally protected right to pick and choose which members of the public they will serve, no matter their religious beliefs.
The Constitution’s protection of religious freedom simply does not include the right to discriminate against others in the public sphere.
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So where is the NY Times outrage over sanctuary cities?
And those in my state who are resisting an illegal, made-up "law", are doing exactly what I expect them to.
Letting Muslims claim broadly available religious exemptions from generally applicable laws or work rules
Tough guys prosecute/persecute bakers. Trespassers/illegal aliens/undocumented residents? What’s that?
“So where is the NY Times outrage over sanctuary cities?”
That fits the meme so it’s OK.
NYT is cracking down on those who choose which laws they will and will not obey! Obammy better watch it LOL.
Uh, Sanctuary States for marriage is wrong?
or Obama’s refusal to enforce DOMA? Where was the outrage over at the Times for that?
perfect example of the totalitarian left picking which laws they will obey.
Tell that to Obama and his cabinet, who routinely pick and choose which laws and which members of society they will work to benefit.
The Constitution’s protection of religious freedom simply does not include the right to discriminate against others in the public sphere.
Let's see if you remember this maxim when your gay allies start persecuting Christians for their Biblical beliefs about marriage. And Muslims, too.
What about Washington DC and Chicago ignoring the Heller decision on the Second Amendment?
Boo hoo. The Slimes has their panties in a wad because America won’t bend the knee to their evil god.
Screw the HOMOs....WE NEED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!!
The Supreme Court does not make law. The have overstepped their Constitutional authority, and those tryin to “create” law must be impeached.
San Francisco refused to comply with federal immigration laws and Kathryn Steinle is dead. Americans are killed and maimed every day by “undocumented immigrants”.
Why is it that the highest court in the land, packed by Democrats, says that homosexuals have the “right” to marry, but every day Americans are denied their constitutional right to life, liberty and property because of illegal defiance of law by Democrats and their friends across the aisle?
Ding, ding - we have the winning response right here folks!
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