Kentucky Clerk Jailed for Contempt of Court

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The right hides behind a fictional Bible: Memo to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — your favorite book is made up

Donald Trump told us recently that the Bible is his favorite book. Ted Cruz announced, rather unoriginally, that God speaks through the Bible. Cruz père has declared that the Bible establishes criteria for political electability. Sarah Palin dreams of enacting Biblical law in the United States, and ponders her own biblical magnitude.

Faith-fiend Rowan County (Kentucky) clerk Kim Davis purports to be defending “biblical marriage” by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she would do well to check and see just what biblical matrimony actually looks like. Even Hillary Clinton looks at the Bible and thinks “It’s alive!” and has apparently spent a lot of time studying it.

These politicians are hardly alone in supersizing the Good Book’s stature. The masses throughout history have used their cash and credit cards to assert the Bible’s primacy; they have, in fact, made it the best-selling book of all time, though Guinness World Records commits the unpardonable error of listing it in the non-fiction category. Fantasy would have been a better choice, if fantasy of a particularly absurdist bent.

Yes, absurdist. The Bible is brimming with rank absurdities that insult our intelligence and affront our dignity as twenty-first-century, post-Enlightenment humans residing in one of the most developed countries on Earth.

Such absurdities include, exempli gratia, the following: The right hides behind a fictional Bible: Memo to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — your favorite book is made up - Salon.com

 

[Silhouette]

cannot strip Kim Davis of her right to exercise her faith on a daily basis and at all times. Faith doesn't have a time clock.

No she always has the options of leaving the mammon provided to her by among others "gay Tax payers" ...she can exercise her faith as long as it does not destroy the Constitutional Rights of Gay tax payers..

People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?

I can see the federal offices now dealing with marriage licensing: "Help wanted, Christians need not apply". If we were talking about race it would be one thing, since race is clearly named in the 14th. "Just some deviant sex behaviors" aren't named in the 14th though. That was added on June 2015..by the wrong branch of government.. and hence the introduction of the conflict between the solid 1st and the legally-incorrect addition to the 14th.

Behaviors do not equal race. I warned about that false premise.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

The right hides behind a fictional Bible...

ROFLMNAO...

Well, Reader... how PRECIOUS is THAT?

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

cannot strip Kim Davis of her right to exercise her faith on a daily basis and at all times. Faith doesn't have a time clock.

No she always has the options of leaving the mammon provided to her by among others "gay Tax payers" ...she can exercise her faith as long as it does not destroy the Constitutional Rights of Gay tax payers..

People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?

I can see the federal offices now dealing with marriage licensing: "Help wanted, Christians need not apply". If we were talking about race it would be one thing, since race is clearly named in the 14th. "Just some deviant sex behaviors" aren't named in the 14th though. That was added on June 2015..by the wrong branch of government.. and hence the introduction of the conflict between the solid 1st and the legally-incorrect addition to the 14th.

Behaviors do not equal race. I warned about that false premise.

There is not a scintilla of the Left's argument that rests upon objective reasoning. It is ALL the same, subjective "DO FOR ME!" nonsense that they've been selling since before Robespierre and the Jacobins started conflating fairness with individual rights.

Sexual deviancy is a BEHAVIOR, which rests upon INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. To which the only potential right for such behavior, rests within the narrow confines of the "Right to Privacy", the first requirement of which is that the claimant KEEP THE PRIVATE BEHAVIOR: PRIVATE.

The instant that one makes their Private Behavior PUBLIC... they forfeit any right to privacy that they may have formerly enjoyed. And THERE IS NO RIGHT TO FORCE OTHERS TO SO MUCH AS TOLERATE YOUR DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, let alone accept it.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

cannot strip Kim Davis of her right to exercise her faith on a daily basis and at all times. Faith doesn't have a time clock.

No she always has the options of leaving the mammon provided to her by among others "gay Tax payers" ...she can exercise her faith as long as it does not destroy the Constitutional Rights of Gay tax payers..

People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?

I can see the federal offices now dealing with marriage licensing: "Help wanted, Christians need not apply". If we were talking about race it would be one thing, since race is clearly named in the 14th. "Just some deviant sex behaviors" aren't named in the 14th though. That was added on June 2015..by the wrong branch of government.. and hence the introduction of the conflict between the solid 1st and the legally-incorrect addition to the 14th.

Behaviors do not equal race. I warned about that false premise.

Race is clearly named in the 14th Amendment. Now that is horseshit and you know it! Or do you?

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The right hides behind a fictional Bible...

ROFLMNAO...

Well, Reader... how PRECIOUS is THAT?

Let it be noted that you have run away from my question to you where I asked to specify what ills you predict will befall the nation as a result of gay marriage.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

cannot strip Kim Davis of her right to exercise her faith on a daily basis and at all times. Faith doesn't have a time clock.

No she always has the options of leaving the mammon provided to her by among others "gay Tax payers" ...she can exercise her faith as long as it does not destroy the Constitutional Rights of Gay tax payers..

People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?

I can see the federal offices now dealing with marriage licensing: "Help wanted, Christians need not apply". If we were talking about race it would be one thing, since race is clearly named in the 14th. "Just some deviant sex behaviors" aren't named in the 14th though. That was added on June 2015..by the wrong branch of government.. and hence the introduction of the conflict between the solid 1st and the legally-incorrect addition to the 14th.

There is not a scintilla of the Left's argument that rests upon objective reasoning. It is ALL the same, subjective "DO FOR ME!" nonsense that they've been selling since before Robespierre and the Jacobins started conflating fairness with individual rights.

Sexual deviancy is a BEHAVIOR, which rests upon INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. To which the only potential right for such behavior, rests within the narrow confines of the "Right to Privacy", the first requirement of which is that the claimant KEEP THE PRIVATE BEHAVIOR: PRIVATE.

The instant that one makes their Private Behavior PUBLIC... they forfeit any right to privacy that they may have formerly enjoyed. And THERE IS NO RIGHT TO FORCE OTHERS TO SO MUCH AS TOLERATE YOUR DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, let alone accept it.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

>>> Bigotry and discrimination is a behavior and its a choice as is practicing religion. <<<

I did not say that... so you need to get it out from under my name, dickhead.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

>>> Bigotry and discrimination is a behavior and its a choice as is practicing religion. <<<

I did not say that... so you need to get it out from under my name, dickhead.

Yes Boss. My mistake. I do admit my mistakes. But it is true and now I'm saying it. Bigotry and discrimination are behaviors ...dickhead

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?

The county clerk's office is a Government Office...It belongs to all the People and it runs per the Constitution ...a Catholic hospital is private and runs as it sees fit... ....did you seriously miss that key difference ?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

SILHOUETTE SAID:

"People who get legal abortions also pay taxes. Are catholic hospitals now required to play along, according to your logic?"

You're as ignorant as you are ridiculous.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

No one pays taxes to a Catholic hospital...

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Holly shit, this is rich when you consider that others on the right have compared her to MLK and Rosa Parks. Finally one of them is telling the truth!!

Pat Buchanan Compares Kim Davis' Anti-Gay Stand To His Own Efforts To Stop Desegregation Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wednesday, 9/23/2015 2:28 pm In an interview with Newsmax TV yesterday,

Pat Buchanan compared Kentucky county Kim Davis’ defiance of court orders to issue same-sex marriage licenses to his own efforts to convince President Nixon to defy a Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation. - See more at: Pat Buchanan Compares Kim Davis' Anti-Gay Stand To His Own Efforts To Stop Desegregation

Buchanan added that he himself had advocated civil disobedience when he urged President Nixon to defy a 1971 Supreme Court decision that “called for district-wide desegregation and allowed for the use of busing to achieve integration.” - See more at: Pat Buchanan Compares Kim Davis' Anti-Gay Stand To His Own Efforts To Stop Desegregation

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

In the ABC/Washington Post survey, released Tuesday morning, 74 percent of respondents said that the need to treat everyone equally under the law is more important than an individual's religious beliefs. In the specific case of Davis, 63 percent said that the clerk, an elected county official, should be required to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, in spite of her religious objections.

 

[Skylar]

In the ABC/Washington Post survey, released Tuesday morning, 74 percent of respondents said that the need to treat everyone equally under the law is more important than an individual's religious beliefs. In the specific case of Davis, 63 percent said that the clerk, an elected county official, should be required to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, in spite of her religious objections.

I think a reasonable accommodation could be made as long as it didn't significantly impact the access of gays and lesbians to marriage licenses.

For example, that another clerk issue them and not Kim Davis.

Likewise, after thinking more on it I would be open to the same accommodation for judges that didn't want to marry gay folks. Let another judge do it. It doesn't seem to be an issue that would significantly impact anyone's marriage.

Davis' problem came when she refused a reasonable accommodation.

 

[ABikerSailor]

She is still interfering. She should go to jail until she steps down.

 

[Wry Catcher]

In the ABC/Washington Post survey, released Tuesday morning, 74 percent of respondents said that the need to treat everyone equally under the law is more important than an individual's religious beliefs. In the specific case of Davis, 63 percent said that the clerk, an elected county official, should be required to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, in spite of her religious objections.

I think a reasonable accommodation could be made as long as it didn't significantly impact the access of gays and lesbians to marriage licenses.

For example, that another clerk issue them and not Kim Davis.

Likewise, after thinking more on it I would be open to the same accommodation for judges that didn't want to marry gay folks. Let another judge do it. It doesn't seem to be an issue that would significantly impact anyone's marriage.

Davis' problem came when she refused a reasonable accommodation.

Davis abridged her duty and violated the civil rights of American Citizens. There is no excuse and no accommodation, unless we want to enforce a version of Sharia law.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

UPDATE: She is STILL trying to prevent people from getting married!

HRC Calls on Attorney General Lynch to Confirm Validity of Kentucky Marriage License
September 25, 2015 by Robin Maril, Senior Legislative Counsel

This week, the Human Rights Campaign sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging the Justice Department to issue a conclusive determination confirming the validity of marriage licenses issued in Rowan County Kentucky that are recognized by the state despite County Clerk Kim Davis's months' long anti-LGBT protest.
The Deputy County Clerks began issuing licenses to all couples earlier this month. Although these licenses are validly signed by the Deputy Clerks and are recognized by the state of Kentucky, Kim Davis and her attorneys question their validity. HRC Calls on Attorney General Lynch to Confirm Validity of Kentucky Marriage License

 

[Silhouette]

In the ABC/Washington Post survey, released Tuesday morning, 74 percent of respondents said that the need to treat everyone equally under the law is more important than an individual's religious beliefs. In the specific case of Davis, 63 percent said that the clerk, an elected county official, should be required to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, in spite of her religious objections.

Then you should have no problem getting the right number of legislators together to amend the Constitution. Aren't you the folks who chanted like a mantra that we are a "republic, not subject to the tyranny of the majority when it comes to civil rights!"?

Well then, you'll be giddy that the 1st Amendment is a person's civil right to exercise of their faith..

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Well then, you'll be giddy that the 1st Amendment is a person's civil right to exercise of their faith..

Within reason, and not on our dime.