Toni Lavis "I think her job consists of all the duties she is required to carry out, even the unpleasant ones."

And what of freedom of religion?
If those "duties" are believed to be unholy/sinful (gay marriage, abortion, euthanasia), the worker believes their VERY SOUL is endangered by doing that work.

You may find this ridiculous, but it is not an insignificant matter to them.

And the American constitution and anti-discrimination laws affirm citizens' rights to hold ridiculous beliefs.

So you cannot prevent such people working for you, as that would violate both the constitution and the anti-discrimination laws created by the same namby-pamby types enforcing gay "rights" on one and all.

The real issue here seems to be that one, and only one, person had authority to sign the licenses.

This is rather short-sighted.

What if that person was in a car accident and went into a coma for 3 months?

Everyone's applications (straight or gay, Christian or atheist) would have to wait until a new clerk was appointed.

The sensible policy would be to have several people authorised, then it wouldn't matter if one was an objecting Christian/Muslim/naturalist, whether they fell into a coma or whether they wandered off into the desert with amnesia.

*Someone else* could easily sign the stupid paper.

Listen to the research done by DR. Richard Oscar Lopez raised by two mums. Type his name into your web browser.

Everyone else seems to have missed it, but well done with that joke Runner.

On the sites where Kim Davis is commented upon, there is a flood of hate and vitriolic comment about her, yet none have been affected by her action. They are brainwashed using terms of "homophobic" and "Hate" where conscientious objection is upheld to defining marriage as a contractual relationship between two persons of the same gender. Some in America even suggest she should be murdered.

Is this the type of violent society we want in Australia, or are we more civilized; and respect freedom of belief in scientific and historical facts.

hhmm so cool

The fact is not all intelligent well adjusted homosexuals want to register their relationship with the Government, so this denies the claim marriage is a human right of equality; otherwise it would be accepted by all that the current situation is a a violation of their human rights. A basic human right must apply equally to all.