I'd agree with the OP and Atlantic issue if "winning" means states with legislatures with "fundamentalist" majorities will pass laws allowing some way for public officials to avoid "signing their names" to marriage licenses and perhaps other documents while still staying out of federal court with the license being issued some other way. This is pretty much what Roberts predicted in his dissent.
And it's all she asked for from the beginning. Reasonable accommodation.
No, her position is still that no licenses issue without her signature, and she says she only signs for adulters and not sodomizers. If she continues with that, I figure she goes back to the pokey.
Actually, you are wrong. She has said consistently that all she wants is her name off the license. Having her name on the license but issued by other people against her wishes is not only illegal (though offered by the activist judge as a solution)...it also means the licenses aren't valid.
Why then is she saying licenses not bearing her signature are invalid?
Davis, who plans to return to work on Monday, said any marriage licenses issued without her authority are not valid. Deputy Clerk Brian Mason said Wednesday that if he has to, he will disobey his boss and continue issuing licenses rather than refuse the orders of U.S. District Judge David Bunning.
In Kentucky, a clerk disrupts an unspoken agreement