New York clerk resigns over gay ‘marriage’: Gov. Cuomo responds, ‘The law is the law’
Reacting to the news that the first New York State town clerk has resigned rather than sign her name on a same-sex “marriage” license, Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted Tuesday that “the law is the law.” “When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose which laws,” he said, according to the NY Daily News . “You don’t get to say, ‘I like this law and I’ll enforce this law, or I don’t like this law and I won’t enforce this law’ - you can’t do that.” “So if you can’t enforce the law, then you shouldn’t be in that position,” he added. Laura Fotusky, a clerk in the town of Barker, announced her resignation Monday on the website of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. “I cannot put my signature on something that is against God ,” she wrote in her resignation letter. “The Bible clearly teaches that God created marriage between male and female as a divine gift that preserves families and cultures.” “I would be compromising my moral conscience if I participated i