can you impeach a county clerk?

[slammerkinbabe]

Hi, guys. I’m thinking of coming back to LJ for awhile. I’ve been doing a project of staying away from Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for a couple months, to see if it helps with my concentration. More about that in a later post, maybe, if I feel like soul-baring. But I took August off from all social media and am now reintroducing LJ because I

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[slammerkinbabe]

That is the nicest thing to say! And I know, it's so nice to see long-time LJ friends still here, the people who made it feel like home back in the day.

I would like to ask Kim Davis and her friends what they would think if a Muslim public servant refused to do his/her job because it conflicted with their religion. We'd see how long their principles would hold up to that.

I mean, I know I keep coming back to that example, and it's silly because some of these evangelicals already have an answer: the government should respect Christianity because Christianity should be the national religion -- "Christian America" and dominionism and all that. I know they don't think it's hypocritical to say Christianity should be respected and Islam not, because they think one is good and the other is evil and the law should reflect that. They're just a tiny bit hamstrung by the fact that the law *doesn't* reflect that. Their goal really isn't to adhere to the Constitution at all, it's to rewrite it. So my pointing out their hypocrisy wrt Islam is meaningless. But... oh.