On the flip side, Kern County will not perform ANY weddings...

[johno]

The Kern County Clerk Stops Performing ANY weddings.

Ms Barnett claims it is due to budgetary and security concerns around the upcoming elections, that something had to give budget wise. Wedding were the thing to had to go. {cough cough} The timing was a just a coincidence, as is the fact that her expected legal issues will be paid for by a conservative "defense of marriage" group.

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Re: Pardon me...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Yet, because every other county courthouse provides this legal service, then every couple who wishes to marry, straight or gay, is being deprived. Since this is a government agency, she doesn't get to choose which goverment services to be provided to the people.

It is also a civil rights issue, because it within that county, it leaves only religious avenues available to obtain the legislated civil advantages of marriage.

This is exactly equivalent to a county welfare office of a state agency deciding not to provide welfare benefits to anyone, so that they do not have to provide them to a racial minority (blacks, Hispanic, American Indians.) Equal, but still wrong.