Freedom of religion means you are free to worship as you choose. It does NOT mean you get to impose your religion on other people.

In your capacity as a private citizen, if you want to print a new edition of the Bible that's just the passages about how a man shall not lie with a man over and over again, you can do that.

In your capacity as an employee of the great state of Kentucky, it is your JOB to issue fucking marriage licenses to anyone who is legally entitled to them and asks for one.

Neither God, nor Jesus, nor Satan, nor Muhammed, nor Moses, nor Adam Smith, nor Santa Claus, nor the Easter Bunny, nor the fucking Krampus are part of the government of the US. They don't get a vote.

You do your job or you can continue rotting in jail for all I fucking care. Maybe your boy J.C. will bail you out.

I'll drink a non-alcoholic beverage to that!

I hate how bigoted people try to twist 'freedom of religion' into meaning 'I'm free to practice my bigotry'.

I just. . . I don't want to hate Christians?

I keep telling myself "I have many Christian friends!"

But then I realize I actually don't have observant superreligious Christian friends and that is the kind of thing bigots say to prove they aren't.

Like, they don't even seem that bigoted on the radio?

It seems like she's just genuinely misunderstanding what she does and does not have a right to do.

Like, if you are a Jehovah's witness, you can refuse to get a blood transfusion.

If you are a Jehovah's Witness and a doctor and refuse to PERFORM a blood transfusion, we have a problem.