I’m Catholic as well, and again I was purely playing devils advocate. I believe she should have resigned rather than continue to draw a paycheck and not fulfill her duties she was elected to do. I also think the way to go with this is from the standpoint of there is no law in Kentucky that she has violated and the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over this, therefore no federal judge should be involved.
My point is she swore an oath to fulfill her duties as clerk and that oath means something as well. And I’m sure she has handed out marriage licenses to individuals living in sin. As a Catholic you know, if a person divorces and remarries they are committing adultery. If she issued them a license, she participated in that as well. She should have thought of all that before running for that office.
All good thoughts. I would have expected her to quit if she were simply hired but when I heard that she was elected, I changed my mind. The voters in that county I assume could start a recall petition or find a way to impeach her. I’m not that familiar with the process but elections are somewhat sacred and not to be taken lightly. I would be interested to read any oath she took. Until I do I’m not going to assume that she has violated it.
That's the rub here, she was elected to uphold Kentucky law, which she is doing.
SCOTUS came along and changed that mid stream violating Kentucky law.
She is doing what she was elected to do, if the KY legislator changes the law then she would have a choice to stay on...or not.
Fact is, SCOTUS does not write law, legislators do....she is correct.
She is fulfilling her duties she was elected to do. She was NOT elected to pass out homo marriage licenses. As a matter of fact, the people who elected her voted 75% to prohibit homo marriage.
She is obeying the people she works for.
But, when those living in sin get married, they are stopping the sin. Re Catholics being divorced and remarrying, how would she know the circumstances?
Should have fulfilled her oath- devil’s advocate here- suppose her duties were changed to authorizing abortions? Just resign then? No standing up for God?