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I applaud these people for standing up for what they believe in, but I also see the side that as government workers, they don’t have the right to not follow guidelines they are given by that government.

I’m not so sure about that. Government employers have to provide reasonable accommodations for many different types of religious issues. It comes down to the reasonableness of the request vs. the hardship placed on the employer to accomodate. If there are other employees that can issue the licenses, that’s an accommodation. However, if this person is the actual clerk of the court, that can be more of a weak position, except the fact they are elected. That can play into it as well. Can the governor remove an elected official if it is not for breaking the law? Or if a clerk of the court invokes religious conscience vs. a law they believe goes against their conscience? Sounds like an interesting legal challenge of personal 1st amendment liberties vs. job responsibilities that they may not believe they can do that came into place after they were elected.

What makes it even more interesting is that for the first 100+ years of our nation, this issue would’ve NEVER cropped up. Any homosexual demand to receive marriage licenses would’ve been met with shaming of the homosexual at the very least. I helped prosecute some of them myself just a few short years ago for the CRIME of homosexuality. So it’s not like this was handed down to Moses thousands of years ago. This is a “right” to depravity that our Founders would’ve never tolerated. In the earliest days of our republic, they were executed. Until very recently, they were shamed and imprisoned. But our culture now bows to the homosexual “god,” worshiping and fearing it. I worship and fear the Almighty God.