“She’s not ‘refusing to issue gay marriage licenses; she’s refusing to issue ANY marriage licenses to anyone, gay or straight. You just don’t get a government-sanctioned marriage in Rowan County.”
But issuing marriage licenses is one of the duties of a County Clerk, as determined by the State of Kentucky. It’s not up to her to decide she’s just not going to do a portion of her job.
As for the “we’re not discriminating because we’re not providing to anyone” argument - it didn’t work when southern states decided to shut down their public school systems altogether rather than desegregate, and it won’t work now.
This is the law in Kentucky
Ky. Rev. Stat. 402.020(1)(d) Marriage between members of the same sex is prohibited and void
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=36466
Re shutting down the schools (if that happened) is harming the education of the kids. Not issuing a marriage lisence is a minor inconvenience (go to a different county) which harms no one.
You do not defeat tyranny by submission, you defeat tyranny with disobedience.
The Constitution prohibits the state from imposing its' religion on us. The religion of the left is secular humanism and the left is imposing secular humanism on the nation which is clearly unconstitutional.
It was, until SCOTUS negated the whole network of marriage laws in KY.
Until the legislature replaces the existing text with text amenable to the SCOTUS ruling, she has no authority to issue any marriage licenses.
“it didn’t work when southern states decided to shut down their public school systems altogether rather than desegregate, and it won’t work now”.
Apples and oranges. You’re born black; that was blatant discrimination. You’re not been homosexual. There is no such thing as homosexual “marriage”. Marriage is between one woman and one man, irregardless of what Anthony Kennedy said. Lincoln ignored the Dred Scott decision and the next president can ignore queer “marriage”. The recent decision was rank judicial tyranny and does not have to taken serious.