Kentucky Clerk Found In Contempt For Refusing To Issue Marriage Licenses

[Expat1 971]

Gotta say, I hope she can't keep any donations given to her--after all, you can't legally profit from the commission of a crime.

Hopefully she will collect enough to supplement her diet with snacks from the prison canteen. She looks like she might need to.

[Expat1 971]

Her mother held the position for 40 years prior to her running for office. Her son works there also

I knew it. Everyone in that county is probably related to everyone else.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Hillary Clinton

✔ @HillaryClinton

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law—end of story. https://twitter.com/ap/status/639484985162993664 …

2:17 PM - 3 Sep 2015

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Your time is coming ...

[Expat1 971]

Hillary Clinton

✔ @HillaryClinton

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law—end of story. https://twitter.com/ap/status/639484985162993664 …

2:17 PM - 3 Sep 2015

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Your time is coming ...

If they had only declared her city as a sanctuary city then she wouldn't have to worry about those stinkin' marriage equality laws

[Ban Hammer 13,651]

In related news:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bobby-jindal-kim-davis_55e76740e4b0aec9f355e064

Bobby Jindal Defends Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis "I think you should be able to keep your job and follow your conscience."

is that like the statement - if you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Looks like she will remain in jail until she complies. Or resigns, perhaps?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Surely it would be easier to fire her for misconduct and insubordination...

[Teddy B 17,252]

Don't call me Shirley.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Surely it would be easier to fire her for misconduct and insubordination...

Nope. She's an elected official so the only way to do this is to impeach her or vote her out. Neither is likely to happen any time soon.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Such nonsense. It bothers me that Christians pick and choose which passages to follow. The Bible also says to obey the laws of the land.

[belinda63 3,051]

According to her husband she will neither resign nor agree to her name being on the marriage licenses. Since the governor refuses to convene a special session to address the issue looks like she will be in jail for at least a few months. BTW the legislature can change the requirement that her name, as the court clerk, be on the marriage license or they can give the authority to issue the license to another department. But, since they don't convene for like four months......

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Nope. She's an elected official so the only way to do this is to impeach her or vote her out. Neither is likely to happen any time soon.

Maybe she'll reconsider her faith in jail, or until she gets a half million dollars in crowdfunding cash.

[Expat1 971]

A few months in the loving arms of a cellmate may change her views

[ready4ONE 5,400]

A few months in the loving arms of a cellmate may change her views

Who knows? Maybe she will find a fourth person to marry, get a fourth divorce, and herself seek a same sex marriage license with her loving cell mate? I'm going to wish for that outcome to this story!

Edited September 5, 2015 by ready4ONE

[Dashinka 24,888]

Such nonsense. It bothers me that Christians pick and choose which passages to follow. The Bible also says to obey the laws of the land.

Which law do you follow when there are conflicts? Is the constitution the law of the land, or a law hastily written by five people in robes? From what I understand, this clerk stopped issuing all marriage licenses to avoid discriminating, and has requested a means to take her name off the licenses, or other methods to allow her to have her religious freedom as well as allowing for the new law to be followed.

"Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said Monday that her Christian beliefs make it impossible for her to give marriage licenses to gay men or lesbians seeking to marry a member of the same sex. Rather than face claims of discrimination, Davis said, her office in Morehead is refusing marriage licenses to all couples until further notice."

From http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/29/3923157/some-kentucky-county-clerks-refusing.html

I realize that this is not enough for extremists. Anyone not agreeing with their position must be squashed with predjudice. The real problem is that SCOTUS or other federal judges are never held accountable for the Pandora's box they open when they legislate from the bench. In this case, SCOTUS should have defined the entire marriage and non-marriage derfinitions in the law taking the entire issue away from the states and created a new federal department to handle marriage licenses and divorces decrees. An interesting item on the divorce side is occurring in Tennessee where a judge is refusing to issue a divorce to a heterosexual couple due to the way that SCOTUS handled the writing of the new law.

“The Tennessee Court of Appeals has noted that Obergefell v. Hodges … affected what is, and must be recognized as, a lawful marriage in the State of Tennessee,” Atherton began. “This leaves a mere trial level Tennessee state court judge in a bit of a quandary. With the U.S. Supreme Court having defined what must be recognized as a marriage, it would appear that Tennessee’ s judiciary must now await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court as to what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”

“The majority’ s opinion in Obergefell, regardless of its patronizing and condescending verbiage, is now the law of the land, accurately described by Justice Scalia as ‘a naked judicial claim to legislative— indeed, super-legislative— power,'” Atherton continued.

The Supreme Court’s decision was “troubling” because it amounted to a “judicial fiat,” Atherton argued. “… What actually appears to be the intent and (more importantly) the effect of the Supreme Court ruling is to preempt state courts from addressing marriage/divorce litigation altogether.”

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/04/tenn-judge-refuses-to-grant-straight-couple-a-divorce-because-of-gay-marriage/

As usual, the Federal Government has created a big issue that most likely can only be repaired by spending a lot of our money.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/29/3923157/some-kentucky-county-clerks-refusing.html#storylink=cpy