Kim Davis now says she will not interfere with her employees who hand out marriage licenses to gay couples, but the Kentucky county clerk continued to insist Monday that a judge’s directive “forces me to disobey God.”
It doesn’t. It forces her to administer the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court. If her religion and conscience do not permit her to hand out licenses to gay couples, than she is in the wrong job and needs to find another. Davis is hardly unique among officials who have found themselves facing that admittedly difficult choice.
Yet even the vice chairman of the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee appears confused about whether state officials can ignore laws they don’t like. earlier this month praising Davis for refusing to issue the licenses and saying that in his opinion, “the clerk is abiding by the laws of God and man.”
In effect, Lundberg is suggesting he doesn’t acknowledge the authority of the Supreme Court — a disturbing stance for someone in his important position.
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