I am not familiar with how the judge came to the contempt finding but I do agree that in our form of separation of powers the judiciary and the executive need to follow the laws as enacted only deviating for clemancy where allowed.
The legislator may rely upon natural law in designing and enacting new laws. That is where we stood at our founding.
Rather than resign, the Clerk has taken the position that “the free exercise thereof” is her reliable refuge. An admirable position. Our nation has done this mess, not one judge caught in the middle as much as the Clerk.
[[the Clerk has taken the position that “the free exercise thereof” is her reliable refuge. An admirable position.]]
Admirable, Yes, but futile, as there is now no longer any rule of law that will uphold her admirable (and correct) position
I’ve been saying right along, that now that gay marriage has been established as law, that Christian persecution WILL begin ramping up quickly in the years following the court decision, and we’ve certainly seen that to be the case with the bakers, florists, wedding photographers, printers, etc all being persecuted out of business, and ruled against in the courts- and now this case with Kim-
Expect to see a large number of these cases in the following months (and while you watch one Christian business, and one Christian professional after another get completely destroyed by gay people, remember what the gay community told us (”Oh no, We would never try to force anyone to do anything against their will, we just want the ‘right’ to be married, that’s all we’re asking- We ‘just want to be happy’ that’s all”)