Look folks, I don't like this woman Davis. She is a religious nut. But she still has the right in this country to practice her beliefs and to deal with the consequences of her actions. Thats the issue here.
She has NO RIGHT
as an agent of the government to impose her religious beliefs upon others. She is in NO WAY empowered
as an agent of the government to impose her religious beliefs upon others. She is quite literally prohibited from doing so.
No one--literally NO ONE--is abridging her right to find gay marriage abhorrent, or telling her to personally sanction, or agree with, the practice.
She is not personally sanctioning these marriages that she personally finds repugnant... she's certifying that licensees have met the legal requirements (of the government she freely chose to be the agent of) for obtaining said license.
If she wishes, she can personally approve or disapprove of any marriage she chooses. She can issue or deny (legally meaningless) marriage licenses of her own devising as she wishes.
Her job--
her legally and morally binding obligation--is to issue those licenses. PERIOD.
Requiring Kim Davis to do the job she earnestly sought to do and freely chose to accept, is NO ABRIDGMENT of her rights, religious or otherwise.
But when
acting as an agent of the government, she refuses to issue any license (for reasons other than those proscribed by law), she is simply not doing her job, and is in fact denying law abiding folks exercise of their rights and/or legal privileges, and certainly the benefits thereof.
Using her office to impose her bullshit religion upon others is illegal--this is not a theocracy--no matter how badly the superstitious retards in this country demand that this is a Christian nation--and Kim Davis is not the Grand Priestess of any religion that this country is allegedly founded upon. When she interposed her bullshit religion into the bullshit state licensing machine, she did not make things better for anyone. She did not do the right thing.
She is just wrong on every level. She is a criminal.