The point is that, as usual, the full weight of the law is falling on this idiot because she's small fish and being open about her reasons. If you are a big shot and smart enough to spread responsibility around with legal gymnastics, you can get away with murder, quite literally.
We're all equal under the law, but some are more equal than others, right?
Clearly some backwater clerk not marrying gays is more grievous than starting a war or crashing the economy.