Just Resign
This is a rant.
The Supreme Court has said that any two adults who show up for a marriage license have to be given one, but some clowns are trying to avoid doing it by claiming a First Amendment exemption on religious grounds.
Wrong, just totally, absolutely wrong! If you are in public service you take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States – you have to obey the law, it isn’t an option. If you don’t feel you can support the US Constitution, just leave public service. There is no religious exception to doing your job in public service.
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Besides, people who want that license are taxpayers: they pay the employee’s wages. Anyone can make any deciscion they want but can they live with the consequences?
Having been in public service I can tell you that the one act that will get you fired is refusing to do your job. Religion is a choice. Any particular job is a choice. The last time I checked, race, sex, sexual orientation are not choices – people are born that way.
For that matter, the same principle applies to people such as pharmacists and doctors who are licensed by the state. That’s a privileged, monopoly position and there are responsibilities that come with it. If they choose not to fulfill their duty to patients then they should find other employment.
And by the way, isn’t that what people like this are always telling the poor and the unemployed to do? Retrain, relocate, find another job, go to school… it’s your choice, nobody owes you a job.
People have a right to believe whatever they want, but they don’t have a right to impose their beliefs on others. By refusing to perform privileged functions, they are imposing their personal beliefs on others.
I am more than tired of having to accommodate the beliefs of these whackoes.