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Barker clerk quits over gay marriage

Laura Fotusky had a decision to make: God or her job?

In the end, the Barker town clerk said it was no contest. God won.

So, Fotusky is resigning her position because she said she cannot and will not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Her resignation is effective July 21, three days before New York's law allowing same sex couples to marry goes into effect.

In New York, municipal clerks issue and sign marriage licenses — sometimes, they may even perform the ceremony — and that's where Fotusky found herself in conflict. New York's new definition of a marriage includes same-sex couples and she doesn't believe that is what God wants.

"I believe that God designed marriage as a divine institution to protect our families and our culture and our society, and so it goes against his plan," she said Tuesday outside Town of Barker Hall in Castle Creek. "He was the designer. It was his plan. It's his way to provide for the human family, and so I believe that it's up to God if he wants to redefine marriage."

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