[Alberta's Child]

I don't want anyone "purged" at all. I would rather see her state simply eliminate any formal recognition of marriage. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's ... and one thing that doesn't belong to Caesar is the legal authority to license a religious sacrament.

When you live in Sodom or Gomorrah, there's no point in standing up for your rights as a government employee.

[BykrBayb]

Yes, “purged” is such an ugly word. I just can’t think of a pretty word for eliminating all Christians from government jobs. What word would you use?

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's not even simply a matter of the "religious sacrament." The County Clerk is not licensing sacraments. She is licensing a relation based on Natural Law. It applies even to people who don't believe in sacraments.

Marriage precedes the very existence of the state, and is definable even lacking supernatural revelation. The foundational document of our Republic, the Declaration, wisely sources its authority on both God and Nature: "... and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."

Because God wrote His laws into our Nature, i.e. the simple fact that our species manifests binary sexual differentiation, and our reason tells us what this is for.