Sisyphus (RE: Clerk won't issue gay marriage licenses): This clerk is asserting a religious liberty over an action that has absolutely nothing to do with her religion and in direct confrontation with the civil rights of a discrete insular minority. Issuing a legal document (a government function) is not part of any marriage or religious ritual. And quite frankly, she provides an excellent example of the kind of religious extremism utilizing government power that the first amendment was specifically designed to preclude. She is using government to enforce her religious beliefs on others. Religious extremism hates western society because of the very freedoms we have embodied in the Constitution. And this clerk seeks to undermine and pervert those to her own ends. She isn't striking a blow for freedom. Just the opposite, she's trying to use her government position to assert power and control. (AP photo: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis talks to a man who has applied for a marriage license)

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