God's Not Dead 2 (2016)

Mark Whitman Johnson: County Clerk

Quotes 

• Rev. Dave : Hi, I'm Reverend David Hill.

  County Clerk : Sermon transcripts, right?

  Rev. Dave : Yes.

  County Clerk : [indicating a corner of his desk]  Just put it right there. They've been coming in all morning.

  Rev. Dave : I'm sure they did what they thought was best.

  County Clerk : That's it? Those are your entire sermons for the past 120 days?

  Rev. Dave : No, that's a letter that I wrote explaining why I'm not going to hand them in.

  County Clerk : Excuse me?

  Rev. Dave : I know it's unusual for a Christian pastor to willfully resist a subpoena issued by a lawful government authority, and it's even more unusual that he should feel compelled to do so.

  County Clerk : Are you sure you wanna do that?

  Rev. Dave : It's something that I have to do.

  County Clerk : You know the old saying "The squeaky wheel gets the grease", don't you? I have another saying: "A nail that sticks up gets hammered down."