"Who is trying to force their beliefs on whom?"

They really don't just want our tolerance:

Rose Marie Belforti is a town clerk in Ledyard, New York who refused to sign a marriage license in August for two women after the state enacted the Marriage Equality Act in July. The two women, Katie Carmichael and Deirdre DiBiaggio, don't even live in New York; they own seasonal property in a nearby town and actually live in Florida. One is an attorney and the other is a filmmaker.

Rose Marie, a mother of four and a grandmother, decided she could not in good conscience sign a same-sex marriage license, so she instead arranged for someone else to do it. The two women chose to come to Ledyard, this small farming town where they don't even live and where Rose Marie has been the elected clerk for the past ten years, and pressed her decision. Rose Marie did not back down. True to her word, she offered to arrange an appointment for someone else to provide a legitimate signature. There are only around seven licenses a year to even sign at all, and she has since turned over the responsibility of signing (all those!) marriage licenses to another clerk.

So in a rational world, everyone should be happy, right? If I asked someone to do something for me and they told me that it violated their conscience, I'd respect that. If that person offered to find me another person to do what I wanted, I'd appreciate that. I'd even say, "Thank you." That's how I raise my own children. This is how reasonable people behave.

Not so in this case. The two women are threatening to sue the town of Ledyard, and the situation has become national news. Rose Marie, whom I completely support, said that she has been "battered over this in the media" and she can’t answer her phone anymore. She could lose her job because the law changed overnight with no consideration for conscience rights. And rather than just "getting married" now as they so wanted to do, the two women have declared they won't stop until they get her to sign the license. Yeah, that sounds like true love to me.

Who is trying to force their beliefs on whom?

Seems clear to me... and to Mark Shea who gets the tip of the fedora for the find:

Tolerance is not enough. You. MUST. Approve! And you must pretend that gay “marriage” is not an attempt to create a legal justification for smashing consciences.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Comments

[RandomThoughts]

This is a perfect example of the reality behind the entire gay tolerance movement. It never has been about "tolerance." It always has been about forcing everyone else to approve of something their religion and/or conscience decries.

They don't want acceptance. They want applause.

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

As a resident of the ONCE great state of New York I’m more than slightly confused about something -

“The two women, Katie Carmichael and Deirdre DiBiaggio, don't even live in New York; they own seasonal property in a nearby town and actually live in Florida.”

You can’t even get a resident NYS fishing license if you ONLY own seasonal property but apparently you can get a marriage license. Makes perfect sense…for NY. Fish no…marriage OK.

[Locutisprime]

"Tolerance is not enough. You. MUST. Approve! And you must pretend that gay “marriage” is not an attempt to create a legal justification for smashing consciences."

In my simple opinion? It is time for some true conscientious objections.

While homosexuals have been busily redefining the definitions of societal perceptions of sexuality and tolerance and all the while applying the false juxtapositions that are key to the imposition of egalitarian lies, the rest of us have been cowed into a comatose compliance.

It is time to use our laws to challenge and combat this assault on our faith, our heritage and our nation et al.

If the law can be utilized to recognize conscientious objection to war? Then the same principles of law must be brought to bear against the dark forces of egalitarianism that are in full attack against "Our Rights."

Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Do not allow evil to triumph. Do not do sit by and do nothing.

Is there really any question of how and why this is happening to us?