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Kim Davis Heads To Court After Defying Supreme Court On Same-Sex Marriage
A county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her religious beliefs heads to court on Thursday where a federal judge could hold her in contempt for defying his order to do so.
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It is indeed a gay / lesbian problem. The problem being you think what you believe trumps the law of the land. The same excuse was used to keep blacks and whites from marrying each other. So either do your job,or go work at your church where you don't have to deal with anyone but people just like you.
I saw a comment on the article that said she has remarried various times and has a child out of wedlock, things that are also prohibited by her Bible. Not only that, she's enacting a paradox: If she obeys God and stops issuing licenses to gay people, she breaches her oath of office which included a promise before a Bible to carry out her duties, something she can't do if she stops issuing licenses. A juicy and convenient contradiction, I say!
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Good. Let's see how long it takes for her to cave in. I suspect she will continue to milk it for what it's worth till the next big whatever comes along and she's forgotten once her 15 minutes of fame are done and over with. gets popcorn.
I added lots of butter to my popcorn! :D
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Once more,an American makes a mountain out of a molehill. Now all the religious can moan and groan that they are being persecuted and discriminated against cause it's ok for them to do it to others,but not so good when they get a taste of their own medicine.
Except that she's not rrreeeaaalllyyyy being discriminated against. She's refusing to do her job. I don't know about you, but if I go into work and refuse to do my job, I'm not going to have a job for very long.
You have to wonder if she would have done this if she was not protected by the nature of her office (elected) and could be easily fired for it. I think not. As it is, her "principled stand" just looks like bullying, abetted by the protection her office provides to her income. I say put your money where your mouth is and quit. But it's too late for that, and now the other bullies are high-fiving her. No doubt she'll get a big cash injection from gofundme campaigns and such by doing it this way, and she may have if she'd been fired weeks ago, but c'mon - we can see right through you, angry scared person! You're not our first bully or our first time seeing someone get run over by their own sense of self-importance. You missed your chance to do the "principled" thing and now you're just dragging yourself and everyone else through the mud to get your 15 minutes.
I wouldn't call it "bullying", but it sure as hell is bigotry and showboating.
No doubt she would, but GoFundMe is a bit more careful now with the campaigns they accept. Y'know, after people threw buckets of money at Darren Wilson for killing a black kid.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it qualifies as bullying either, but I do think it looks a lot like it - pushing people around or excluding them because you have the power to do so, etc. I did forget about the Ferguson gofundme thing, though I imagine her supporters will still find ways to underwrite her through speaking tours and such. Hell, she'll probably be standing next to one of the GOP candidates on the campaign trail sooner than later. It's an ugly business all the way around.
It appalls me that some people think their personal opinion trumps the (ironically) "God-given" rights to Life, Liberty, and Property. One thing that I feel makes America a great country is the separation of church and state. But it seems like, especially recently, people have taken it as more "keeping government out of religion but keep religion in government." I can guarantee you that if a devout Muslim government worker were to be seen praying to Mecca while on the job, many Americans would be up in arms about Separation and the loss of "christian morals" from a secular government.
No greater honor can you bestow a fundamentalist christian than to "persecute" them for their beliefs. She's now a martyr, exactly where she wanted to be- happier than a pig in shit.
sadly, there was little to be done about it. She's an elected official. There's a process. I hope if the county holds her responsible for any costs incurred for this little fundy temper tantrum.