an icepick through the keyhole

I could never argue that discrimination is right, but I sure as heck can argue about the duty of civil servants to uphold their oath of office. }:-)

I would be the first person to vote for the state (in my case Alabama, not California) to remove any boundaries on gender in marriage certificates, but that's got to be done in a legal manner. When our elected official just pick and choose which laws to follow erodes the very foundation of our society; that we abide by the laws that govern us. You've noted further down that the upholding of law by civil servants is their duty and I agree with that. I also agree that until such time as the law is changed that anybody who deliberately violates the law for whatever reason is guilty of breaking said law; regardless of the just or unjust nature of that law. Perhaps I'm just a person who feels the need to work within the system to affect real change in the system itself.