Well, isn't this interesting!
Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who is the state's chief legal officer, declined Thursday to defend against a lawsuit challenging the state's prohibition on same sex marriage, calling it unconstitutional and leaving the job of bolstering the ban to Gov. Tom Corbett.
Which brings up this question: Is she required, as attorney general, to defend the law? Daryl Nutcase, The Shame of Butler County, thinks so.
"This is clearly dereliction of duty. It's her responsibility to defend the laws of the commonwealth regardless of her personal feelings," said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry. "If she doesn't want to do that, maybe she can resign and have the governor appoint someone who wants to do the job."
I'm sure if I wanted to, I could find many examples of Nutcase ignoring the laws of the Commonwealth due to his personal feelings. Oh wait, here's one from a couple of weeks ago! Pot, meet kettle.
Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Sims, an openly gay legislator, was blocked from speaking on the floor of the state House on Wednesday by a colleague who believed Sims’ plans to speak about the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage decision would be in "open rebellion against God’s law.”According to WHYY, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe raised a procedural objection to stop Sims from speaking during a part of the House session in which legislators often give wide-ranging remarks. "I did not believe that as a member of that body that I should allow someone to make comments such as he was preparing to make that ultimately were just open rebellion against what the word of God has said, what God has said, and just open rebellion against God's law," said Metcalfe, R-Butler.
"God's law", and secular law, are of course, different things.