LF: 'I am a follower of Christ': County clerk resigns rather than issue gay marriage licenses

Linda Barnette has issued marriage licenses in Grenada County, Mississippi for 24 years. On Tuesday, she resigned.

“I choose to obey God rather than man,” Mrs. Barnette wrote in her one paragraph resignation letter to the Grenada County Board of Supervisors.

“I am a follower of Christ and I believe strongly that the Bible is my final authority,” she wrote. ‘The Bible teaches that a marriage is to be between a man and a woman. Therefore, because of the recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, I can no longer fulfill my duties as Circuit Clerk and issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.”

Another worker has been appointed to replace Mrs. Barnette. It’s unclear if Grenada County will hold a special election to permanently fill the elected post.

“I told my supervisors a while back if it happened, I would tender my resignation,” she told me. “I had already decided in my heart that I could not issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. It’s my Christian belief. As a follower of Christ, I could not do it. The bible teaches it is contrary to His plan.”

Mrs. Barnette is a Southern Baptist and her husband once helped Franklin Graham with his national festivals. So when it came to choosing between her job and her faith – there never was any real debate.

“Christians are being put to the test,” she said. ‘We’re going to see the true Christians who stand. It’s going to be time to stop talking the talk. It’s going to come down to that.”

There are many public workers just like Mrs. Barnette who are struggling with the Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage. I received private correspondence from a minister who told me about a North Carolina clerk who resigned. The clerk refused to comment or go public over fears she would be attacked by LGBT activists.

Brian Robertson is Mrs. Barnette’s pastor at Friendship Baptist Church. He said had two reactions to her resignation.

“I am saddened in the fact that we are losing a wonderful county clerk and a very faithful and hard worker,” he said. “I am grieved as a minister and Christian because of the circumstances that have caused her to have to resign.”

However, Dr. Robertson also had praise for his parishioner.

“I applaud her as a brother in Christ,” he said. “Her testimony to the Lord is more important to her than serving man.”

The Mississippi pastor suspects she will be the first of many to lose their jobs because of their Christian faith.

“Political propagandists want to force Christians who do not agree with the liberal mindset out of office,” he said.

I asked Pastor Robertson if he was concerned about LGBT activists coming after Christian ministers. His response was rather interesting.

“I pray that I am targeted,” he said. “I will use the statement Joshua made many years ago. As for me and my house – we will serve the Lord.”

Amen, pastor. Amen!

In the coming days I believe Christians will be forced to abandon their jobs in public service. Those who remain will be targeted with lawsuits and investigations from the activists.

Resign or face the consequences.

Make no mistake. America is about to undergo a religious purging in the public marketplace – at the hands of secular jihadists.

Christians were persecuted in the Soviet Union for decades. Yet they survived and secularist regime is gone.

They survived because the Russian Orthodox religion in Russia was co-opted by the Soviet state,and they controlled it. They still control it.

They control a religion that teaches the opposite of the state ideology of atheism? No wonder the USSR collapsed. Christianity is a destroying virus. Killed off the pagan Romans and the Soviets and came out on top. Islam is the last stumbling block but that has something to do with the end times. Who are we to understand the workings of the Lord.

Of course they do. What better method of knowing and controlling what the peons say,do,and think?

Plus,priests make the best informers because True Believers always tell priests everything they do and think.

"Priest" was a NKVD/KGB career field,and every Patriarch that has sat at the head of the Church in Moscow has held that seat with the approval of the old Politburo. Today that means the approval of Putin.

That's American bullshit propaganda. Like the old false tale that the Soviets used dolls as explosive devices and used poison gas in Afghanistan. All false bullshit from a nation of bullshiters.

Why don't you tell us about how the Patriarch under Stalin used to tell Stalin to kiss his ass,he wasn't going to close his church down?

Christianity is not about that - the New Testament is clear on the relationship between a Christian and the non-Christian state. And in reality it was Stalin who had to go to the Church for help when Hitler invaded.

Care to tell us how Stalin used to suck up to the Moscow Patriarch before the Nazi's invaded?