Los Angeles County's clerk — the guy who handles marriages, among other things, in the nation's biggest county — told the Times in a story Saturday that he might find a way to let staff who feel, uh, uncomfortable performing a same-sex ceremony to opt out.

No way, says Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. In a letter today to county Board of Supervisors chair Yvonne B. Burke, Delgadillo wrote:

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 official views regarding an applicant's sexual orientation.

He wrote a similar letter to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Of course, Delgadillo is the city's lawyer and has no authority or ability to tell Dean Logan or any other county employee what he can or cannot do. Expect a long, delayed and secret memo on the issue to come Logan's way from the county counsel at some undetermined time in the future.