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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your idea is already effectively in practice. Those who don't believe gay couples can be married will continue to believe that it's not a "marriage" and there's nothing anyone can do to convince them otherwise (until their secretly gay child comes out and gets married). The rest of us will go our merry ways not caring about the secret subculture of anti-gay-marriage folks.[/quote]
The difference is that while we go on our merry way (provided we are not dependent on Davis for a license), those who don't believe in gay marriage feel the law is unholy.  I want to give them a way to express their opinions while keeping their respect for the law. If they can accept that Jack and Jim are married, but not Married, then perhaps everyone can be happy.

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There are a lot of things people like that feel are "unholy," and the nice thing about our country and our Constitution is that the government can't prosecute them for those beliefs. They have the right to express their opinions, including agitating for a Constitutional amendment overturning this particular decision.

No one can force Kim Davis to believe something she doesn't want to believe. But, her government job requires her to comply with the law of the land, and so does Jesus - "...Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." She doesn't get to trump the law with her religious faith, because that way lies chaos and/or theocracy.

The rest of us have the right to ignore them and think disparaging thoughts about them. 
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