“No. You are advocating that anyone who holds Christian values must capitulate to anyone who wishes to destroy them.
Given that this situation is wholly a construct of judicial activism, do you really want to specifically give the left the power to destroy any semblance of godliness in the government?”
Like it or not the SC made a decision and all appeals have been denied. That is our legal process and to allow officials to ignore it would result in anarchy. Do you think Muslims working in a pork store should be allowed not to do their job because touching pork is against their religion? No one is forcing her to violate her religion, she can always quit if they cant find another job for her.
Inventing "rights" that specifically run afoul of enumerated rights in the constitution is not a valid legal process under the constitution.
Do you think Muslims working in a pork store should be allowed not to do their job because touching pork is against their religion? No one is forcing her to violate her religion, she can always quit if they cant find another job for her.
That is a false equation. First, muslims who apply for a job in a pork store know when they apply that handling pork is a requirement of the job. The KY legal definition of marriage is unchanged.
Second, the SCOTUS mandate to deliberately misinterpret the existing law requires a Christian to forsake the free exercise of their religion - that is, the clerk must personally authorize the marriage on the state form - in order to occupy an elected position. Religious tests for office are also explicitly unconstitutional, including a test that requires one to forswear the tenets of one's religion. Added to the fact that the change is post-facto, occurring after she was duly elected, it is doubly bogus.
Third, being an elected official doesn't allow the state to "find another job for her".
Under your stance, you will stand aside while the judicial system destroys the government's acceptance of fundamental rights enumerated in the supposedly governing document of our nation. If creative interpretation can negate fundamental rights of business people and elected officials alike, then none of us have ANY rights at all.
This is a fight worth having.