[MortMan]

It's not a "purge" if you walk away voluntarily, is it?

"Resign or be persecuted" sounds like a purge to me.

[Alberta's Child]

"Resign or do a job that you have no business doing" is a better description.

The state has no real authority to grant marriage licenses to heterosexual couples, either.

It's funny how so many limited-government conservatives overlook the most obvious intrusive abuses of government authority in their lives.

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting little item from a National Review piece on this topic this morning (emphasis is mine):

Jonathan Adler, writing in the Washington Post, reminded us of Antonin Scalia’s argument about the death penalty: If the justice believed that his official participation in the legal machinery of death was immoral, then he could not be a judge while capital punishment remained on the books.

Antonin Scalia is making the same point I've been making with Kim Davis.