To the editor: Rowan County, Ky., is a lovely rural area nestled in the Appalachian foothills, crowned by a quiet but thriving county seat encircling Morehead State University. I know; I used to live there. How sad that one of its public officials refuses to serve the people in the way she swore she would. ("Freed clerk Kim Davis tells supporters to keep fighting same-sex marriage," Sept. 8)
If Kim Davis, the county clerk, feels she can no longer fulfill the duties of her office as defined by the current laws of our nation (local, state and national), including issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, she could prove her faith by simply resigning and joining the other protesters.