According to a poll released Tuesday,
only 26 percent of likely voters say an elected official can ignore a
federal court ruling for religious reasons.
According to a Rasmussen Reports poll
of 1,000 likely voters conducted September 6-7, only 26 percent of
respondents selected the first statement in the following question:
“Should an elected local official be able to ignore a federal
ruling that he or she disagrees with for religious reasons, or should
that official carry out the law as the federal court has interpreted
it?”
“The latest Rasmussen Reports
national telephone survey finds that 66% think the official should
carry out the law as the federal court has interpreted it,”
Rasmussen
Reports said in releasing its survey.
The poll's results were published on
the same day that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, the elected clerk of
Rowan County, was freed from jail after serving five days for
refusing to comply with a federal judge's ruling to issue marriage
licenses to all qualified couples. Davis has said that issuing
marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples would violate her
conscience.
(Related: Kim
Davis won't say whether she'll abide by order in gay marriage
dispute.)
“Voters show little sympathy for
jailed clerk in marriage spat,” Rasmussen said in tweeting its poll
results.