When the Supreme Court first recognized a nationwide constitutional right to same-sex marriage in the 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges , Kim Davis didn’t like it. So Davis — a county clerk in Kentucky who apparently saw herself as the interpreter and administrator of all laws — decided she had the right “ under God’s authority ” to refuse to issue marriage licenses.

Davis should’ve been fired on the spot. The job of any public official is to follow the law as it stands, not to exercise their personal preference (or the Almighty’s). Instead, Davis’s defiance has now landed her on the Supreme Court’s doorstep with a chance to undo the very law she chose to ignore.

The Kentucky county where Davis worked eventually resumed issuing same-sex marriage licenses (but allowed individual cl

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