Brian Brown, president of American anti-gay group the National Organization for Marriage,
today posted that the New York marriage equality law is victimizing Christians:
We've already met the first victims of this new gay marriage regime. Town clerks, charged with a duty to issue and record marriage licenses, are faced with a stark choice: give up stable employment in the midst of a troubled job market, or give up their religious convictions about marriage. Two clerks have already resigned; others have been warned that failure to comply with the new law could land them in jail. Who will the next victims be? A wedding photographer or owner of a reception hall? Parents of public school children who object to curriculum changes this fall? How long before the new law impacts you and your family? The answer from Albany is clear: We couldn't care less.
Rob Tisinai put it best in a
June 29 post about an elderly clerk who NOM identified as the "
first casualty" of the marriage equality law. Tisinai's response is worth quoting at length: