Though it makes utterly no sense, the clerk in Kentucky is going to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
This is just a stupid stunt on her part, the city's part and the judge's part. They're making a mountain out of a molehill: she's simply refusing to do her job. When people refuse to do their jobs, they should quit or be fired, not thrown in jail.
Her boss should have fired her the day the Supreme Court ruled against her. She shouldn't be in jail, she should be out on the street looking for a new job. If her religious beliefs make it impossible for her to fulfill her duties, then she should quit.
This same issue has come up innumerable times in the past. When Muslim clerks at Target refuse to ring up bacon for customers because they think pork is haram, they should be fired or quit their jobs. When Muslim cab drivers refuse to give rides to people bringing home alcohol from the airport because Islam forbids the consumption of alcohol, they should quit or be fired. When pharmacy clerks refuse to sell birth control pills to unmarried women, they should quit or be fired. It's pretty simple.
And this isn't the first time this exact issue has come up. When miscegenation laws, which forbade interracial marriages, were ruled unconstitutional in the 1960s by Loving vs. Virginia all the county clerks across the country who swore the Bible forbade racial mixing had to either quit or suck it up and do their jobs.
This is exactly the same thing. Issuing a marriage license doesn't mean you approve of or condone the wedding. It's just filling out some government paperwork.
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