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There were a number of non custodial solutions to the problem, but she refused to take them on each occasion. The crux of the issue is that her role as an elected one, and this meant that she could not be dismissed under usual means. It then became a game of shouting ping-pong between the...

I don't think there was any necessity for her to go to prison, but she wanted to be a martyr. She had a number of deputies to whom she regularly delegated work, and they were allowed to licence marriages when she was on other business, holiday, Ill etc. She could easily have asked them (and...

Fair point. I don't see how her religious beliefs prevented her from allowing her deputies to grant the licences. It comes across to me that she's using religion as a flag of convenience from which to hide her bigotry.

If a doctor had religious beliefs that prevented him/her from operating on gay or black people, do you think that would be acceptable too?

She was empowered to allow her deputies to grant the licences instead, but refused to do so.