A slightly strange turn of phrase there BF. The law had changed, it is exactly that point she should have been putting her religious convictions to one side to do her JOB ..... or resign.
Not that aware of but denying a marriage licence on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, number of legs - all the same as far as I'm concerned.
If she didn't like the idea of issuing licences for gay people to marry she should have resigned.
Because religious bigots should not be tolerated which is exactly what they would be doing if they tried to work around her refusal to issue licences. If that official had been a KKK member ( which is perfectly legal to be ) and refused to issues licences for mixed race marriages would you be...