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lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 01:48 PM Sep 2015

Davis's controversy isn't about religion: It's about her rights to her govt. job. None.

http://theweek.com/articles/574847/where-religious-freedom-ends-why-kentucky-clerk-no-right-deny-gay-marriage-licenses

But the Kentucky case goes too far — as the Supreme Court appears to recognize. Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land. A county clerk works for the state. She doesn't have a right to her job. If her conscience forbids her from complying with new requirements of that job, she can resign and find other work. She certainly can't appeal to God over the heads of the country's political institutions and expect to get away with it


She doesn't have the right to impose her religion on anyone else and she doesn't have the right to use her government position to do that. In fact, she doesn't have the right to her job at all- If she violates her job limitations, it should be very easy for a judge to remove her from her elected job. If not, there need to be better laws.

My answer to school prayer has always been:,. "Great. We're gonna pray. To the Buddhist Goddess Tara. Here she is! "
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