“The first NC Senate bill filed Wednesday would allow magistrates and employees of county registers of deeds offices to refuse to perform marriages or issue licenses due to religious objections”.
Any such bill would be challenged as unconstitutional at the federal level. Do the wingnuts care how much they spend on such a failing endeavor in the courts? Hell no, as long as they get a soap box in the name of Jesus.
This is really quite simple. If you can’t put aside your religious beliefs in order to fulfill a government office without bias you are simply unfit to hold the office. Done and done. What’s the problem? Get rid of any Magistrate who can’t separate church from their civic duties in office and move along. That’s the way it’s designed to work under the US Constitution. Anything argument to the contrary is semantics to justify an ideological or religious position. When it comes to the execution of public office Christian, Muslim, Buddhism, Wicken… got nothing to do with it.
Put forth your argument in the name of Jesus or Christianity, then replace them with another deity or religion and see if your opinion holds true. That’s the litmus test. If you think Magistrates should not be held to their civic duties in office because of their Muslim or Wicken beliefs then you have an argument. A bias towards Christianity provides no platform or foundation for such debate.
Did I mention all this is from the party of “less government”? Horseshit. The ONLY time any Republican’s wanted less government is when it comes to gun control, business/finance regulations or tax collection.