The fight over gay marriage this week runs through Rowan County, Ky., (population 25,000), where the local clerk won’t issue marriage licenses, and a judge ordered her to be jailed. …
The country is full of counties like Rowan — places that are the exceptions to the dominant local culture, and where fights like these may arise. Gay marriage is settled as an issue in the courts and the polls, but it isn’t settled in the minds of people everywhere. Wide differences remain at the community level, where the subject still burns hot. CONT.
Dante Chinni, Wall Street Journal