Illegal Defiance on Same-Sex Marriage

New York Times ^ | July 10, 2015 | Editorial Board

[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.

[USNBandit]

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