Civil Rights
Jun. 20, 2008
An Indecent Refusal
The decision by a county clerk to stop performing marriage ceremonies runs afoul of the values that underlie our collective history.
Konrad Moore
Public Defender
Kern County Public Defender's Office
California is a wonderfully diverse state. There are few places in the United States in which the palette of our nation's beauty is on better display. Most recently, the same state that pioneered public funding of stem-cell research, and an enlightened commitment to environmental protections, now brings you an elected public official prepared to disregard a law with which she disagrees.
Ann Barnett is Kern County's elected auditor-controller-clerk. Heading the office that over...
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