Texas County Clerk: Gov. Abbott ‘Hung Us Out To Dry,’ But ‘God Will Not Acknowledge These Marriages’

In a hilarious email sent in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, a Texas county clerk wrote that GOP Gov. Greg Abbott threw local officials under the bus by forcing them to choose between being sued and issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

In what she described as a “vent,” Shelby County Clerk Jennifer Fountain (above) wrote in the email to a statewide list that one resident told her she was taking the county “to the fires of hell” by issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Shelby County is in far East Texas, on the Louisiana border.

Abbott, who vigorously defended the state’s marriage ban, sent a vague letter to the heads of state agencies after the ruling requesting that they protect religious liberties, and Attorney General Ken Paxton later issued an opinion suggesting county clerks could refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds, but likely would be sued.

Greg_Abbott_by_Gage_Skidmore“Why didn’t our governor stand up and say, ‘The State of Texas WILL NOT ISSUE marriage licenses. If you want to sue, sue the state,'” Fountain wrote. “Instead, he hung us all out to dry, threw us under the bus.”

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/texas-county-clerk-gov-greg-abbott-hung-us-dry-god-will-not-acknowledge-marriages/

[font color=330099]This county clerk is stupid to ever believe that a Republican elected official ever gave a crap about an individual besides themself.[/font]