LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UPI)

The Los Angeles city attorney has asked county officials to forbid county workers to refuse to officiate at same-sex marriages, the Los Angeles Times said.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Monday asked Los Angeles County supervisors to order Acting Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan not to give discretion to employees who are uncomfortable with same-sex marriages to recuse themselves, the newspaper reported.

“Mr. Logan has no legal standing to grant county employees the authority or ability to choose which marriages they wish to officiate at based upon personal views regarding an applicant’s sexual orientation,” Delgadillo said in a letter Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Yvonne B. Burke.

Delgadillo urged Burke to order Logan to “require every county employee generally tasked with officiating at marriage proceedings to do so, regardless of any personal beliefs or biases.”

He said the supervisors should call on Logan to resign if Logan refuses to comply.

Delgadillo also said he would call on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to see to it that all California county clerks disallow exemptions.

Logan told the newspaper Friday — one day after the California Supreme Court ruled that laws against same-sex marriage violate the state constitution — that managers in his department asked him to consider letting employees opt out of officiating same-sex marriages.

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