But see, the clerk in your town made the right choice there - she felt that one of her job duties violated her religious beliefs, so she decided to stop working there. Nobody’s forcing these clerks to continue working in that position. They’re making the choice to stay in a job that legally requires them to do…

Agreed. You can’t be a public servant and picking and choosing which members of the public you want to serve. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

There’s an easy way Debbie can avoid dealing with this. Work any other job. Like, nearly any other job would not put her in the position of dealing with the gayz getting married.

They’re only rivaled by that one really serious HOA member that every HOA has.

I used to be a vegetarian. During that time I worked at a fast food restaurant. Did I refuse to give people their sliders because of my beliefs? No.

As a preschool teacher, you can’t even understand my appreciation for your entire statement. Brilliant.

Not that you haven’t thought of it, but I’m pretty sure no matter what you did, even if you literally kept a running notepad of what was ‘required’, they would say you did it wrong every. single. time.

I remember when my high school health/sex ed teacher told me that she worked in a clinic in the poor (and religious, natch) corner of the county, that a woman (likely what I would call a kid now) came in on her third or fourth pregnancy and said “I don’t understand how this keeps happening” the message being that she…

Oh, sheesh. My previous job had me dealing with clerks, and this “You were supposed to staple it in THIS location and you were an inch off so we’re sending the whole thing back!” bullshit is enraging. And you’re exactly right about them changing things on a dime and somehow we’re supposed to keep track of every tiny…

I’ve been in various situations like that, where people with just a tiny bit of “power” act like they control the universe and you must bow to them.

I’m an attorney and deal with clerk’s offices in several counties around me. They weirdly power trip here too. I have to brace myself every time I go in there to ask for anything, because I’m probably going to get a lecture of some sort about how I was supposed to have three photocopies of this, and two of that, and…

I sent her a nice email:

This was the response from the County Clerk, herself :

Actually, Sky Daddy cares. He explicitly said we shouldn’t judge others. Christianity, you’re doing it wrong.

“That’s just my religious belief.”

The fuck kind of world do we live in when telling people that they’re living wrong and going to be judged and burn in hell can be construed as “I felt I talked nicely to them.”

I am a case manager for low income families. A lot of my clients have some trouble with family planning and regardless of the fact that some of them live off of less that a thousand dollars a month, continue having baby after baby. Do I think it’s right to keep bringing children into poverty? No. Do I keep my opinions…

Clerk here. When dealing with an employee who may have acted improperly, any comments to his/her supervisor should be made in writing so it can be placed in that individual’s personnel file.

deputy clerk Debbie Allen is an abomination .