RE: Good!!
September 4, 2015 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2015 at 6:02 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(September 4, 2015 at 1:56 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I mean it's a good argument, but hypothetically would you feel the same if the situation was reversed and someone went to jail for issuing a license to a gay couple?
I see your point here, but it couldn't happen that way. Even if a court clerk issued illegal licenses, they would be meaningless pieces of paper. They would not give gay couples anything, no benefits, no legal standing as a married couple. Therefore, there would be no reason for anyone to risk anything for that cause. They can neither deny anyone nor grant anyone anything in that situation.
In order for the tables to truly be turned, Christians would have to be granted a right that everybody else had but them, (and we all know those don't exist) and an atheist clerk would have to deny them those rights. And in that case, yes, I would support jail time for a person who defied a court order to comply with the law.
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