NY Town Clerk Quits Rather Than Serve Gay Families

via WickedGayBlog.com by WickedGayBlog.com on 7/13/11

Faced with the choice of either abiding by professional standards and doing the job for which she was paid, or adhering to the stipulations of an anti-gay faith tradition, a town clerk in New York reportedly chose to resign -- an arguably laudable decision, given that it resolves the question of professionalism while preserving the individual's conscience.

But anti-gay groups are holding the resignation up as proof that legal equality for same-sex families is damaging to religious freedoms, even when a marriage equality bill is as carefully crafted to respect anti-gay religious traditions as the one passed recently by New York lawmakers.  Full story here!