It's heating up.
In the news today is 2 gay couples are suing a Clerk that refused to issue them a marriage License.
In an attempt to not show prejudice.
She stopped issuing "any" marriage Licenses.
I believe that the Non Gays that were not issued Licenses, did not join in the litigation.
Yes, I know law of the Land, and as a Employee of the Gov. she is required to issue the licenses.
She said she refused because of her Christian beliefs.
Guess we'll have to watch and see what happens.
Ride safe, Ted
Other states should follow Utah's (yes Utah) example on this. Essentially, each county needs to have at least one clerk/employee that is willing to issue licenses to gay/lesbian couples and is authorized to do so. If they have one that is willing to do so, the other clerks may refuse on religious grounds, directing said couples to the person designated to issue said licenses.
It's not a perfect solution, but it seems to be working for Utah.
As y'all may remember, Utah's 'Marriage is between a man and woman' law was struck down in Federal court not too long ago, and the subsequent solution above was agreed to by Utah's LGBT community and the religious and other types in the Utah legislature. Utah was actually very proud of this passed legislation/solution, and I'm sure a few of you may have seen it on the national news.
Of course, while Polygamy is technically illegal in Utah, I do expect some of our underground polygamists to come out of the woodwork soon as part of the 'multiple parner marriage' thing y'all are alluding to.