The Situation With Kim Davis

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The Situation With Kim Davis

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 2nd, 2015 at 02:51 PM

Kim Davis is the elected Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky. She has refused to issue marriage licenses in Rowan County over gay marriage.

 

My thinking on this is more complicated than a good or bad, yes or no, binary situation.

I think government employment needs to be open to all, not just those who go along with present secular zeitgeist. A government cannot be composed of all people when it excludes certain citizens from office or employment because of those citizens’ religious beliefs. There is, in fact, an orchestrated movement to chase Christians from government work.

 

Certainly employees of the state and particularly those who are elected take oaths of office that require their faithful duty to administer the law and uphold the constitution. However, it makes sense to do as many states have done and provide an accommodation that the conflicted employee be allowed to pass a duty to someone else if compliance puts the employee in conflict with his faith.