Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was presented with a difficult choice when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that same-sex couples have a right to marry under the U.S. Constitution. Should she be obedient to her religion or to the Constitution she is sworn to uphold? Davis made the wrong choice. She announced after giving the matter prayerful consideration that she would cease issuing all marriage licenses in the county, regardless of the applicants’ sexual orientation, to avoid having her name on a license for a same-sex couple. That means, of course, that she is denying the rights of all couples in the county who wish to marry. It is no answer that they can simply go to one of 130 other Kentucky jurisdictions to obtain a license. If one clerk can deny marriage licenses based on her religious beliefs, all Kentucky officials could do so as well. In fact, following the Supreme Court’s June decision, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear ordered all county clerks to issue marriage licenses without respect to sexual orientation. If they can’t do so, the governor said, they should resign.