Posted on 09/02/2015 4:29:48 AM PDT by Nextrush
Rowan County, Kentucky Chief Clerk Kim Davis and her staff will face US District Judge David Bunning after lawyers for two gay couples filed a contempt motion.
The lawyers for the plantiffs want the judge to issue hefty fines against her to force compliance with his earlier order for her issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Yesterday morning, Davis's office again refused to issue marriage licenses to the two same sex couples who appeared at her office again to demand licenses.
Davis issued a statement regarding her decision that says in part.
"I am not perfect. No one is. But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.....I have no amimosity towards anyone. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God's Word. It is a matter of religious liberty, which is protected under the First Amendment, the Kentucky Constitution and in the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Our history is filled with accomodations for people's religious freedom and conscience. I want to continue to perform my duties, but I also am requesting what our Founders envisioned-that conscience and religious freedom would be protected. That is all I am asking. I never sought to be in this position, and I would much rather not have been placed in this position. I have received death threats from people who do not know me. I harbor nothing against them. I was elected by the people to serve as the County Clerk. I intend to continue to serve the people of Rowan County, but I cannot violate my conscience"
We shall soon see what the response of the federal judiciary is, perhaps as early as tomorrow's contempt hearing.
Fines could be coming as the plantiff's lawyers want, but the final decision comes from Judge Bunning.
Kim Davis's opponents have resorted to smear tactics noting her three previous marriages and sex outside of marriage resulting in children.
My Trumpistic brass knuckles response to that "stuff" is this.
We have a national holiday honoring a man who led historic acts of civil disobedience.
Dr. Martin Luther King, a married man and assassinated martyr, was not perfect either as the FBI found out when it recorded his frequent encounters with two prostitutes at a time. Four FBI technicians told author Taylor Branch that Dr. King said "I'm f***ing for God".
nobody is perfect as Kim Davis noted in her statement.
If we are going to assassinate Davis's character and say she isn't worthy of having her conscience respected in this matter, then let us go ahead and cancel Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday.
Since that isn't going to happen, I'm not going to worry about Kim Davis's past and none of us should give a rip about it.
We should be grateful that Davis had the ability to cite a 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act' in Kentucky law.
When attempts were made to pass such laws in Indiana and Arkansas back in the spring, corporate elites like the CEO's of Apple and Wal-Mart stood up and the Republican governors (Mike Pence and Asa Hutchinson) backed down.
When North Carolina's legislature passed religious conscience legislation earlier this year for public officials regarding gay marriage Republican Governor Pat McCrory vetoed it.
Good reminders that our faith and trust should not be in the GOP whose officials slowly rot this nation, but in the GOD who created us all and will strengthen this nation.
And with that faith perhaps we can find meaningful ways to resist evil and bring the politicians along by overwhelming them with that resistance in peaceful and spiritual ways.
That's essentially what Martin Luther King had to do and did back in the 1960's.
There may be some violence along the way like there was in that decade, but it will not be because we wanted it, but because evil people chose to ignite it.
And liberal/Democrat/pro-gay judges rule according to their ideology and work out the legal justifications later. Its all a farce.
They’re going to have to tread lightly.
They KNOW they’ve imposed an abomination against the will of the people,
and would see some backlash since they can be held accountable and the judges cannot.
I have no problem seeing it from that perspective.
However what’s going on here is MUCH more complex than the simple refusal of a governmental official to fulfill a task assigned to her.
For instance, my understanding is that a marriage license issued anywhere in KY is valid anywhere in KY (do I have that right?). These folks are deliberately targeting her because they know she’ll refuse. They can go to the next County over and get a license, today, if the so chose to.
So it’s easy to conclude that it’s not enough for them to get married, they ALSO want making a Christian violate her beliefs and conscience to be part of their sacred union.
Now thats extraneous to the legal issues here involving performance of her official duties. But it certainly should be part of the discussion about what’s, in the larger sense, really going on.
I watched a clip of the perverts swarming this woman’s workplace and harrassing her last night. Prayers up for her safety.
KY is one of the last Red states where Democrats can win so long as they present themselves as Conservatives. Thats how this County Clerk, who is a Democrat, won the office she now occupies.
This issue scares the hell out of KY Democrats. And it’s the reason why national Democrats aren’t applying any sort of pressure on KY Democrat officeholders to take some sort of action, even symbolic action, against her.
Just also remember who you’re picking to represent “conservatives”. She’s been married 4 times and had children out of wedlock.
Well said.
Yes, they were wacko.
The men trying to beat down the door of Genesis 19 came to mind.
All before she was born again and became Evangelical.
I’m not evangelical. Not even particularly religious, but I can see where going through that sort of religious awakening changes ones outlook and behavior in a way that makes many things that happened before that awakening irrelevant.
The Left is trotting out the hypocracy card. It’s a bullying tactic that has no particular relevance here.
And will your support for same sex marriages be the same when Caesar demand you sign a loyalty oath in support of queer marriage or lose you private sector job?
"Obey the Law or Resign". Is that it? Is that what you'd have the clerk do? You'd have made a fine Nazi. After all - they too were only following the law as they sent millions of Jews to their deaths.
Uhhh, so?
She is obeying Kentucky law, as she is sworn to do.
Wouldn’t a Federal Judgista have to be impeached by the US Congress? If so, don’t hold your breath waiting.
She could conceivably get both. It depends on how hard-assed the judge wants to be. She will have a hard decision to make tomorrow, and while it's easy for us to say she should dig in her heels and stand her ground we're not the ones facing jail or financial penalty. So whatever her decision is tomorrow I'm not going to second guess her on it.
Excellent point. They could go to the next county over instead of targeting this one woman.
"The gold and the silver are mine" - Haggai 2:8.
In the final analysis, nothing is Caesar's. Everything is God's. He holds the deed to the Universe. When Caesar tries to force us to his will instead of God's, God himself tells us to refuse.
"We must obey God rather than men" - Acts 5:29.
Perhaps you think this woman should leave her job because of her Christian convictions. Would you like every believing Christian to walk away from every government job that forces them to compromise their faith? I don't think you would like our nation with a government of only non-believers.
Better she should stand and fight. I support her 100%. She is standing up for God.
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