The latest issue of National Review includes the following blurb:

A county clerk in Kentucky has made national news by refusing to issue marriage licenses, or let anyone else in her office issue them, because she opposes same-sex marriage. Her fans plead the rights of conscience, her critics the obligations of office. There is, however, a middle ground. Officials should be allowed not to take actions they find immoral so long as they do not inconvenience the public: The clerk should not have forbidden her colleagues to do their jobs, and should not have to issue licenses to same-sex couples herself. North Carolina has passed a law that strikes the right balance: Whatever services the government has decided to provide people as a right, they should have; but they do not have a right to have particular officials provide them.

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