In July the state of New York began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But one local official did not go along. Laura Fotusky decided to resign as town clerk rather than violate her conscience by facilitating same-sex marriages. Laura, a member of a non-denominational church, said that the Bible “clearly teaches that God created marriage between male and female.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded to Fotusky’s resignation, saying: “The law is the law, and when you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.”
Fotusky told her supervisors that she had a different mandate: “I had to obey God rather than men.”
(From WORLD magazine, August 13, 2011 issue, p. 10)
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