And will your support for same sex marriages be the same when Caesar demand you sign a loyalty oath in support of queer marriage or lose you private sector job?
"Obey the Law or Resign". Is that it? Is that what you'd have the clerk do? You'd have made a fine Nazi. After all - they too were only following the law as they sent millions of Jews to their deaths.
I really can’t get over how far we’ve come when a conservative thinks this is a reasonable position. This would be a reasonable position if one’s epistemology is contemporary culture, but how is one a conservative at all under such circumstances? I think about my professors, how they all listen to NPR. I think, I would believe the way you do too if I listened to NPR.
When you go to the first principals of conservatism, you’d see that j.argese’s position nullifies every conservative principal: you like guns? Well the government says they’re dangerous, so give them to us or we’ll fine or fire you. You like keeping your money? We know what to do with your money better than you. You don’t want insurance? Well SCOTUS said you have but insurance so here’s your fine. You want to go to that church? Well the Human Rights Commission ruled it’s hate speech so we’ve got an approved church over here for you. We DO NOT, under any decent understanding of Christianity or conservative philosophy, have to obey lawless magistrates. We have the duty under Christianity and conservatism to disobey.
Actually, I would have made a very poor NAZI. I don’t have the drone mentality. If she truly was considering her faith along with her career she would have resigned her position, then filed suit.