Texas county defend right to hire ONLY Baptists.

[JDPriestly]

21. Here is the First Amendment phrase that requires Kim to marry LGBTs.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

The 14th Amendment guarantees that these rights also limit the states and employees of the states and requires public employees like Kim to respect those rights in dealing with the public.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" means that, regardless of the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers or of people today, our legal system and our laws are not to establish or represent or be limited by or based on the beliefs of religion in general or of any specific religion.

Government employees are, in their work, to follow the laws of our nation and local governments. They have to leave specific beliefs not a part of our laws at home if they want to work for the government.

Kim is attempting to establish her religion when she refuses to follow the law of our country and refuses marriage licenses to LGBT people based on her personal religious beliefs.

She may not perform her government job according to her personal religious beliefs if those beliefs conflict with the law. And her denial of licenses to LGBT couples conflicts with the law.

I hope this is a simple, clear explanation for people who do not understand what separation of church and state means.