Clela Rorex - county clerk who issued the first same-sex marriage license in the United States on March 26, 1975.
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Quote:The Boulder County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in part because of the marriage licenses Rorex issued.
After Rorex issued same-sex marriage licenses, Howard showed up at the courthouse with Dolly and asked for a license to marry his horse. Rorex said she declined his request on the basis that his eight-year-old horse was "underage" and could not marry without written consent from her parents.
She received a great deal of hate mail and many angry phone calls.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
