and what I sign or dont sign is part of how I run MY life
Absolutely. In your private life. If, in your working life, you are asked to sign something you don't like, you are still entirely free to resign that job. Nothing else.
it doesnt require me to rule over you, if you ask me to drive you to a booze party when I dont drink
Unless, of course, you have been hired as my driver. In which case, again, you are quite free to refuse, provided you give up your job as my driver.
I am choosing not to participate or contribute to what you want as what you want is out of line with what I believe to be a healthy behavior/atmosphere
thats ruling over ME,, which we all should have the option to do
Quite alright. Unless, of course, you also try to actively interfere with something I want to do for myself, which is entirely legal, and has nothing to do with you. Then you become wrong.
likewise, Im not ruling over you if I dont want to authorize or sign consent to something you want to do if I dont agree with it,, I am ruling over ME and you have the option to choose someone else to do it who does agree with it,,,
Again, absolutely and 100% false, especially in this case, where she was using the fact that her signature was REQUIRED BY LAW on the forms, to (again) cause her RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS to become the law of the land.
but it doesnt matter, as I have said, if we give up our understanding of the word 'marriage' in terms of holy matrimony
they are seperate things
one: a contract between two citizens and a government that obligates the government to the couple
two: a vow between a man and woman and God that obligates the COUPLE to God,,,
it is quite possible to sign as a witness without agreeing with what you witnessed, and as a government employee, the answer is to understand your signature as nothing but a testimony to your WITNESS of that contract and not your APPROVAL,,,,
No one of legal consequence has called upon any recognized Church institution to alter it's convictions, and marry people with whom they disagree. Had this woman not conflated her duties as a government representative with her religious ideas, there would never have been a problem to begin with.