She has done her job. A rogue court is trying to force her to change her job. They should make an accommodation. They are the ones trying to say up is down and down is up. Let them make accommodations.
Courts in the past have made other bad rulings. Perhaps you think the states should have submitted to the Dred Scott ruling. When one judge makes the difference in a fundamental definition of society he causes social chaos. That is why the decision should have been left to the people, not the judges. These activists seeking licenses were probably the very ones demanding states’ right just a short time ago. Deviant con artists.
We still have a First Amendment. I know you Gaystapo types want to overturn that, but as of yet, it still exists.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” — President George Washington, 1753
Patrick Henry, “Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.” — Gouverneur Morris, writer of much of the U.S. Constitution, 1752-1816
[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man... and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.” —George Washington
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” —Joseph Story
1856 - The new Republican party selected for its national platform a call to abolish the “Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy.”
“Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of the bond between a man and a woman. It is the means by which families are created and society itself is extended into the future. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it is the means by which husband and wife participate with God in the creation of a new human life. It is for these reasons, among others, that our society has always sought to protect this unique relationship. In part the erosion of these values has given way to a celebration of forms of expression most reject. We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality.” — President Ronald Reagan, July 12, 1984
She has done her job. Then the job changed. Now she won’t do it.
I’m in software QA. I absolutely refuse to work on software that could kill somebody if I miss a bug. That mean I don’t work on medical software, and I don’t work on software that moves metal. Period. My career has gone very nicely for 20 years that way. If tomorrow my company bought a medical software company and transferred me over to it I would go find another job.
We all have our decisions to make. But we don’t get to have those decisions go without consequences. I understand her position, but she needs to understand it has consequences. If she absolutely refuses to hand our marriage licenses to gay couple then there are consequences.
Many states did submit to Dred Scott. And the ones that didn’t followed legal means to get around it.
The First Amendment doesn’t protect you from consequences. She’s free to speak out, and she’s free to seek other employment.