Roosevelt County Clerk Donna Carpenter and her Deputy Clerk Janet Collins left their jobs on Friday following last week’s court ruling, as they would be responsible for issuing marriage licenses in the county.
ALBUQUERQUE – Two Eastern New Mexico county clerks have submitted their resignations after the state Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision legalizing same-sex ‘marriage.’
Roosevelt County Clerk Donna Carpenter and her Deputy Clerk Janet Collins left their jobs on Friday following last week’s court ruling, as they would be responsible for issuing marriage licenses in the county.
Commissioner Bill Cathey told the Associated Press that the women had advised that they would walk away from their jobs “rather than be associated with that.”
“She told us in the past that’s what she would do,” he stated of Carpenter. “I am personally very disappointed in the decision of the judges, and I don’t blame our clerk for doing what she did.”
Pat Davis of ProgressNow New Mexico, a homosexual advocacy group in the state, told the New Mexico Telegram that he understood the clerks’ resignations.
“In the end, their decision to resign is honorable if they feel that they are unable to execute their duties under the law,” he stated…
