"Their worldly paradigm is so foreign to what we are trying to do in defending Utah's marriage law," Mero said. "That someone would resign a good job to take on a great cause isn't shocking to me, but I guess it's shocking to HRC. I just don't see the separation of church and state as meaning an individual has to give up every ounce of faith and freedom they believe in to somehow entertain a secular idea that the law is such and such."