sc94597 on 30 June 2015
| Sharu said: http://www.youngcons.com/texas-governor-defends-religious-liberties-and-its-hardcore/ 'In a directive issued in the last few hours, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has informed all those agencies that they are to comply with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, Article I of the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Religious Freedom Act. In other words, he just shut down same-sex marriage in Texas and ordered everyone to preserve the religious liberties and First Amendment rights of all Texans.' Is this serious or blahblahblah? |
Luckily, I think even in Texas there are many reasonable clerks who will issue said licenses. Managers at these offices will quickly learn that it isn't productive to employ clerks who are not doing the job that others are doing, and hopefully they will quietly discriminate against applicants who feel that marriage licenses should only be for opposite sex couples.
I view this similar to a doctor's freedom to choose whether or not he/she will do abortions. Unfortunately since the state has a monopoly on licensing marriages I find this much more devastating though. This is a clear example why state monopolies are just as bad as other types of monopolies, if not worse because they are evidently force-induced, rather than implicitly so.
