[Aliska]

Yes, people like Kim Davis. But she is following her conscience as it was formed. And there was a time where I would have ignored that teaching because almost everybody else does it (since about the 20's or 30's) except Catholics. And I didn't know about Catholic teaching then.

So what would I do now? I would have to follow my conscience and do what I said. Not issue marriage licenses and several other things.

Kim was no longer issuing any marriage licenses because she was smart enough to know they would get her on discrimination.

[JediJones]

Unfortunately though, I would’ve rather seen the issue challenged on the basis of the so-called discrimination. If we can’t defeat the “logic” that says you can’t distinguish between a man and woman ever, then the underpinnings of the Supreme Court’s decision remain in place.

It looks like playing it “smart” didn’t stop the court from dropping the anvil on her. If she was going to get hammered either way, she may as well have attacked the real problem with the ruling. Our end goal is not to stop the government from issuing all marriage licenses. And in a way, this tactic weakens her religious objection, since her religion would not prevent her from issuing them to opposite-sex couples. Only denying same-sex couples would allow the issue of religious objection to be tested head-on.