San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

Last week, we reported that San Diego County Clerk Gregory Smith proposed allowing his employees to opt out of same sex marriage ceremonies for religious or moral reasons.

In an interview with Reuters, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had this to say about the proposal:

“I was pretty shocked about all that, candidly, and pretty outraged. 

“This is a civil marriage that civil servants have a responsibility to provide, so for civil servants on religious grounds to start passing judgments, they, I think, are breaking the core tenet of what civil service is all about.

“If that is their job and they are going to be able to pick and choose based on their morality, then all of a sudden they are not doing their jobs.

“If you don’t want to provide a marriage certificate and you’ve got a job that does that, then you should think twice about why you got the job in the first place and maybe you should get a new job,” he added. “Talk about a slippery slope, Mr. County Clerk down in San Diego.”

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