Zero Tolerance

If the FRC had been around in the early 1900's they would have been using the same scare tactics to prevent women from obtaining voting rights as they use on the same-sex marriage issue. In the early 1900's extremist "Christians" said that granting voting rights to women would shatter the very foundation of society because it would give women authority over men in contradiction of biblical laws. If Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation had lived in the time of our Founding Fathers, the only thing she could have realistically hoped to be the director of would have been her own kitchen. You people would be more at home in the time of the Puritans than you are in this modern age. They were extremists then and you are now. By the way, I'm still waiting for you to show me the data that proves that same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is destroying society in that state.

If part of Ann Barnett's job description is helping people get married, then she is NOT "just trying to do" her job. If you get hired to do a job, YOU DO IT, regardless of your own petty prejudices. Imagine if a pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for a Gay man because he had a religious objection to Gay people. If Ann Barnett's self-righteousness is getting in the way of her fufilling her duties as a county clerk, she needs to find a new line of work.

The hypocrisy in this little 'article' is astounding. "The reactions to her actions expose quite a bit of the intolerance Christians can expect..."? The woman is refusing to do her job under the law and is openly discriminating, people objected to her refusing to do her job and openly discriminating, and Tom McClusky sees HER as the victim?

I'd wager pretty high that, if it were 60 years ago, soft-spoken Ann Barnett would have had the same reaction to interracial marriage. Wonder what the guys would have said on their "Truth in Black and White" blog then...

All Americans have the same rights under the constitution, not the under the bible. Remember when the church was prejudice to blacks? Desmund Tutu remembers.

Please take a look at your headline here. 'Zero Tolerance' How would that phrase sound turn against Christians? If it came from a Muslim or Jew? Walk a mile in my shoes.

THIS IS PATHETIC. Intolerance goes so far that now it is pure hypocrisy. If gays can get married then no one can get married? Please, mind your own business and quit feeding us this fearful BS. Just because simple-minded people want t limit everyone else does not mean that they should have preferential rights to do so. QUIT haating and start reading your Bible, and pray for forgiveness while you're at it.

This comment will likely be removed/disallowed/censored.
It's what I expect from intrusive 'know what's best for everyone' folks like you.

No marriage is being destroyed.
What part of that don't you people understand?
IT may not be 'marriage as YOU define it', but I don't think that religion is 'as you define it'.
Thank goodness, huh?

You are the perverted ones.
You pander to the basest reflexive knee-jerk anti-gay repressives to alarm and scare people into a reaction.
You ABUSE religion.
You refuse to understand or accept that another view has any legitimacy whatsoever.
You preach intolerance.
That's NOT a very Christian attitude now is it?
Seriously - you need to look at that.

If part of Ann Barnett's job description is helping couples get married, I don't care what sort of religious objections she has, she's negligent in doing her job. Imagine if a pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for someone he knew was Gay, because of his own self-righteous indignation toward Gay people. Would all you folks at FRC be running to HIS defense also? Ann Barnett's own petty prejudices should not prevent her from doing her job. And if she can't just get over herself, she needs to find another line of work.

I am concerned that the FRC is on a mission of hate and denial. The hate is clearly directed at gay and lesbian people, and the denial is of the many terrible things happening now in Christian families.

Instead of pursuing the continued denial of equal rights to gays and lesbians, I suggest you look into the amount of spousal and child abuse occurring within Christian families. How many Christian men beat their wives and/or children, or sexually abuse them? I don't see the FRC taking a public stand on these issues.

I think you are on the wrong track, and are not living up to Judeo-Christian values.

Taking her ball and leaving?

Can I stop doing my job and claim to be persecuted if people complain?

Step down, step aside, and embrace our lifestyles is what this court decision means. To those of us for whatever reasons who don't believe homosexual marriage should be legally sanctioned we are being forced to set aside our beliefs and join the movement, step by step. Isn't this ironic?

Ann's religious beliefs cause her to be unwilling to carry out her duties based on the new legal regime. It's sad that there is a conflict between the state and her conscience. Should we allow people to break the law based on conscience? I feel bad for Ann, but I don't see how else to address it besides her finding work that fits into her worldview.

Do you have a zero-tolerance policy of your own? I'm surprised at how few comments are posted here. (I made a post over a week ago and you haven't accepted it.) I wonder if nobody is reading your blog, or if you don't care to see any debate. What other reason could there be for seeing so few posts (including my own)?

Jason,

Don't feel hurt, for whatever reason my supportive comment didn't get approved either.