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.”
Credit: Fox News
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May God bless you, Linda Barnette!
The love for God trumps a paycheck from degenerate perverts. I see Linda Barnette as already being blessed for making the right choice !!!
Yep! Absolutely! Thanks!
I wish we had more men like her.
“The Bible teaches that a marriage is to be between a man and a woman.”
That aside, common sense dictates that sex between anyone other than a man and a woman is abominable.
Linda , it is for real people like yourself that we shall prevail !!! Kill all the commies !!! Start the ball Tector !!!
she has a rare trait………integrity
She never should have had to make that choice,why the hell is govt. involved in marriage and a million other things none of their business.
According to Ron Paul and the teachings of being Libertarian, the government has no say in issues like marriage. I personally as a libertarian believe that things like marriage and other “heart felt” things should be between individuals or localities and shouldn’t involve the “government”. Just my thoughts. Ban me if you will.
“Ban me if you will.”
LOL… only if you actually vote, sharon. 🙄
Sharon, absolutely the govt. has no say in marriage, and should not even require those idiotic “marriage licenses” (when me and my husband were married it was in a church “by God and the State of Texas”….like we really gave a crap about approval from the state of Texas!). Further the Supreme Court has no say in it, either…but forcing administrators like Linda to issue a marriage license to gay couples when it VIOLATES ROMANS 13 (which states that all laws are from God and all “magistrates” are to abide and to enforce laws God set up and not to make laws that violate God’s laws–and marriage between a man and woman ONLY is one of God’s laws–since God had them put into these positions to enforce His laws) is what I and others are pissed off about…where does it end? When pedophilia is lawful? When worship of Christ is illegal and punishable by guillotine? Because these Satanic elites are “the law”?
Everybody seems to miss the point. Marriage is a human social institution that was around before intellectuals invented the state. The state has no authority to define marriage and neither does anyone else but the parties involved in the marriage. Why on earth would anyone lend legitimacy o the agenda of an illegitimate state? The whole scam is about denying the right to the freedom of association. Gays don’t have rights, negroes don’t have rights…. Humans have rights and all the rest of the monotonous bullshit is smoke and mirrors to divide and rule. My freedom isn’t at all diminished because a handful of people freely chose to buck the normal human condition. The State’s newly formed ministry of love is a different story altogether.
Stay tuned for the next sex law sex with children, then plural wives and so on if they can dream it they can create it. The camels foot is in the tent.
Then I want my religion recognized, its the one that does not believe in government but rather self reliance.