New poll show Americans feel clerks must issue same-sex marriage licenses

FILE - In this June 28, 2015, file photo, David Turley, center left, and his husband, Peter Thiede, display their wedding bands while posing for photos with friends and family in front of New York's Stonewall Inn. For the first time, most Americans expect government officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even over religious objections, an Associated Press-GfK poll has found. ItÂ’s partly a matter of expecting public servants to do their jobs. But more broadly, the issue touches on a familiar dispute over which constitutional value trumps which: religious freedom, or equality under the law? (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FIle)

For the first time, a majority of Americans (56 percent), say they expect government officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even over religious objections, an Associated Press-GfK poll has found. One woman who ideologically opposes gay marriage reflected this shift when she said: “If the government says you have to give out those marriage licenses, and you get paid to do it, you do it. [Kim Davis] should be out of a job.”

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