The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Illegal Defiance on Same-Sex Marriage Friday July 10 th , 2015  at  1:02 PM 1 Share The Supreme Court could not have been clearer when it  ruled late last month  that states may not refuse to marry same-sex couples. “The right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court in  Obergefell v. Hodges . “Under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty.” Most of the country has  quickly accepted  these words as the law of the land. But in  several states where the resistance to marriage equality has been most entrenched, government officials whose job it is to license or perform marriages continue to misunderstand, stall or flatly defy the court. However they justify these tactics, their conduct is illegal and they must stop. In Hood County, Tex., County Clerk Katie Lang order