Posted on 09/02/2015 7:00:44 PM PDT by markomalley
Kentucky needs to protect its people from a lawless USSC action.
She'll run out of options when her God does.
Turley thinks she's cornered. Foolish, foolish man. In his Pilgrim's Progress, Reformation writer John Bunyan (not to be confused with the giant lumberjack) called this sort of thinking, and the chorus of voices like Turley's, the Vanity Fair. We call it "the Conventional Wisdom" nowadays, but Bunyan excoriated it as a kind of satanic temptation.
To select a more recent metaphor, Turley would have told Rosa Parks to just go back and sit in the back of the bus, the law being against her.
Guess libs don't have much use for civil disobedience if the cause isn't their own.
Shamelessly trolling for my own preferred outcome, I've invited gays on Salon to push their overabundant PAC money into a big pile and go buy Paraguay, and then turn it into the absolutely stunning gay society that they are convinced will make the rest of the world green with envy.
I still hope they'll go for it.
For instance, a nurse or doctor can refuse to perform certain procedures which violate their religious conscious such as performing or assisting in abortions or giving a blood transfusion (Jehovah Witness).
I don't see why she couldn't use that reasoning for herself only. She can't order others to stop issuing gay marriage licences.
I may be wrong completely here but it's worth a try.
then go to another clerk or driver’s license center.
All marriage licenses issued in that county must have her signature. She doesn't want her signature on a document licensing a sodomite "marriage"
She can cite Scripture (many, many passages) indicating that sodomite behavior is abominable. Giving sanction to that behavior would be formal cooperation in that abomination.
Can you perhaps cite Scripture (not just God's word, but any major religious texts) that assert that issuing a drivers license to an otherwise competent person would be a formal cooperation with evil?
How about if you wanted to get a permit to put an addition on your house and the city official denied you that?
This already happens. If a person, for example, wanted an addition on their house in order to accommodate religious worship, there are many examples where building permits were denied because they'd create a zoning problem.
Do you usually exercise your right to vote? Maybe you’d like to experience being told you can’t register to vote because some public official says that God told him you were a sinner.
My above question applies here: can you cite some religious doctrine that arbitrarily denies a person the right to vote based solely upon a religious rationale?
On the other hand, all this self righteous woman needs to do is perform the task she was elected to do and fill out some paperwork. No harm done.
You, FRiend, need to study up a little bit on the subject of moral theology, specifically, the concept of formal and material cooperation with evil.
Thank you - I didn’t know that.
Then the article wrongly asserts that the Supreme Court issued an order.
I admire this woman.
In after midnight zot
The unanimous ruling was the circuit court. We don't know how many Supreme Court justices voted to take her case other than it was fewer than four.
One quick clarification. She can’t order clerks in other KY counties to not issue licenses. She can and has ordered her staff not to issue them, under the principle that it’s still her name on the document.
Thats why the Federal Judge has summoned both her and her staff to appear before him this morning.
This is now more a test of wills than a legal or moral argument. The court can declare that the couples have a right to the licenses, but it doesn’t have the ability to force her to issue them. Only increase pressure on her using various methods until she acquiesces. Question is how much pressure will be enough to get her to break. IS there enough pressure to get her to break?
I think evangelical Christians are right to see her as their version of the lone guy facing down the Chinese tank in Tianamen Square all those years ago.
Huckabee is backing her completely, which is no surprise. Rand Paul issued sort of a tepid support for her. Cruz is supporting her. Fiorina is against. Jindal is supporting her. I don’t know about the rest.
Daniel 3
in particular, verse 18
“But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
Exactly.....they want to BEND her and others like her to their will.
If Kentucky was going to then they would have by now. The governor ordered her to issue the marriage licenses.
You can keep saying mind your own business,and I will keep telling you it IS my business-and the business of every decent institution,private or governmental.
Go back in your closet and STFU.
If they bring of Social Security benefits, then I would say, “Oh... so it’s about getting money from the government?”
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