IMHO, this clerk should simply have resigned in protest; the civil law will be observed until changed.
That is exactly what she should have done, but I think she may have been seeking matyrdom...
And if she had simply resigned, we wouldn’t be able to debate and fulminate on these threads, and what fun would that be...?
How many times would you have us resign, or quit, or be fired, or even sent to the Kamps for our faith?
Besides that - look at this as a Constitutional matter. She was following legal state law and ignoring an unlawful and unconstitutional order from the SCOTUS.
It’s a Christian’s duty to obey God rather than men, and a citizens duty to disobey tyranny.
“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Martyrdom? Martyrs go to jail? Do we have to apologize to all the prisoners now?