Conscientious Rejection
No, I will not issue you a marriage license. Now leave me alone. Her name is Kim Davis, and what she's doing is seriously messing with my head. As a county clerk, part of her job is issuing marriage licenses to any applicants who meet a short list of requirements: be at least 18, bring your driver's license to apply, swear to not being married to anyone else, and don't be more closely related than second cousins. Being straight is no longer on that list. Kim Davis wishes it still was. She'd really rather not issue marriage licenses to gay couples. I know something about wishes. I wish summer was a week longer. I wish I had a classroom of my own to teach music in. I wish I didn't have to drive 35 minutes to get to work. I wish I could afford to travel more. I wish, I wish, I wish... As the saying goes, "If wishes were fishes, we'd all swim in riches." Since they're not, we don't. (Though given the state of the world's ...