Mormon apostle Oaks: Kentucky clerk wrong not to issue same-sex marriage licenses
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, cannot use her Christian faith as a justification for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays, a high-ranking Mormon authority said Tuesday.
Public officials "are not free to apply personal convictions religious or other in place of the defined responsibilities of their public offices," LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks said in a speech in Sacramento, Calif. "A county clerk's recent invoking of religious reasons to justify refusal by her office and staff to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples violates this principle."
... Advocates on both sides of the gay-rights divide have weighed in on Davis' actions, including many Mormons and other Christians defending the clerk, but The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been silent until now.
In a carefully worded address at the Second Annual Sacramento Court/Clergy Conference titled "The Boundary Between Church and State," Oaks argued for balance and good sense between religious freedoms and civil liberties.
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