I was under the impression she was a deputy clerk, as I read where several other clerks in her position agreed to issue such licenses. If I am wrong about her position, I appreciate your clarification.
If she is the only person who issues such licenses, this is a different problem. I’ll need to do some research in order to give an informed opinion, altho legally the problem is not really different from the clerk or judge who refuses to sign/deliver a death warrant in a capital case.
Thank you for your post.
We have a long history in this country of civil disobedience, but those who take this route are going to be arrested and otherwise put through a lot of stress. The nature of the issue is irrelevant,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3332812/posts
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It’s my understanding that she won’t allow the clerks who report to her to issue licenses, either. If that is true, then the way I see it is that she has moved from refusing to violate her personal beliefs to forcing others to abide by those beliefs, too. Can’t say as I could get behind that.
No, they can actually get them from any other county clerk’s office statewide - unless one of the parties is under 18, you don’t have to get them in the county of residence. They have 120 to choose from. Supposedly they are now okay with having her deputies issue them (which is not allowed by statute from what I can see), which makes no sense as they weren’t okay with just getting them from another county clerk and pushed to get this lady thrown into prison. Even if you believe she’s wrong, that’s hardly worth going through all of this when there is an easy alternative. Something else is going on that has nothing to do with marriage licenses. Someone got wind that she was not comfortable with doing so and she was targeted is the only thing I can think of to try to make some sense out of what they were doing.