Do Not Confuse the Discrimination of One Group for the "Freedom" of Another

If your religion, or any belief of yours, keeps you from doing your job, then you probably need a new job. There's a reason you won't find any Amish pilots. There's a reason vegans don't work as butchers. You won't find any nuns with part-time jobs at the gentlemen's club.

Certain values do not align with certain job descriptions, and so the two never meet.

But the thing is, job descriptions are subject to change as laws do; as times do. Specifically, jobs that work with one of the most relevant and dynamic aspects of American life: marriage.

If you are a Christian clerk, who is so against the gay marriage ruling that you are unable to do your job, you probably need a new job. The dynamics of your current position have changed, and it's time to move on to something more compatible with your lifestyle. This is in no way oppressing you, this is challenging you to serve the world in a way with which you are comfortable. You're no longer comfortable here. You're no longer willing, and therefore no longer capable, to perform the tasks for which you were hired.

Expecting people to do their job is not infringing upon religious freedom--mainly because it has nothing to do with it. The idea of being unable to serve someone because their own personal beliefs don't align with yours is not only totally idiotic, but also discriminatory. And, you know, therefore, illegal. And you cannot work for the public, yet disregard public policy that you don't like. You are disregarding our Supreme Court. You are breaking the law, and there are consequences.

So please, for the love of God (pun intended), stop making county clerk Kim Davis out to be a hero. Please understand that Jim Crow was once a hero too, for standing up for what he believed in. Please stop making this about anything but bigotry.

To call this a fight for religious freedom is to quite literally mock the First and Fourteenth amendments. Davis is not for religious freedom. She's for forcing people to live according to her own agenda. She's for spreading her own beliefs and disregarding everyone else's. She's only about your freedom to exercise religion, as long as it's hers too. It's beyond hypocritical--it's laughable. And by labeling her hateful fight as one for religious freedom, we're doing nothing but validating her nonsense.

How about Davis stops picking and choosing which aspects of her religious principles she'd like to follow and advocate for, and simply does the job she was paid to do?

What would have happened if Davis had married a gay couple? Would she then be gay, herself? Would she then be held accountable by God for the "disagreeable" actions of others? How would it have affected her in anyway but a paycheck? Imagine if vegetarian waiters refused to serve customers steak. Imagine if they somehow felt like they're right to not eat meat was infringed upon by someone else's right to enjoy it. Would we do anything but laugh at them?

And to those who believe the gay couples should have just traveled elsewhere to get married: you're missing the point. They should not have to. County clerks are elected in to serve the public. They did not choose her because they wanted her to lead them down the straight and narrow road to righteousness. That's not her job. Her job is to serve them.

Imagine all the groups who could potentially be oppressed if we allowed conservative Christians to discriminate like this: gay people, single mothers, the recently divorced, eaters of shellfish, anyone who practice any other religion, etc.

And lastly, please stop using your "religious beliefs" to justify bigotry. Beliefs can be homophobic. That's the nature of opinions. So yes, you're religious. But you're not in any way, shape, or form honoring God denying others their basic human rights.