Posted on 09/03/2015 11:35:47 AM PDT by Bratch
As is now well-known, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses after the Supreme Court ruled in June that states are required to recognize same-sex nuptials. But the fury aimed at Davis has been disproportionate to the actual facts of the situation, and shows galling – and revealing – inconsistency on the part of her critics.
In particular, where was the outcry when Attorney General and later Governor of California, Jerry Brown, refused to mount a defense of gay-marriage ban Proposition 8? Representing the state in court was at the center of his job. Yet he put his personal preferences – some influenced by his liberal version of Catholicism – ahead of the clear dictates of his state’s voters, who had been forced to use the initiative process when politicians failed them.
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In 2004, clerks who violated the law to perform same-sex marriages were celebrated. In 2009, Gov. Jerry Brown was a civil rights hero for refusing to perform one of his essential duties. Yet in 2015, the Kim Davises of our country need to watch out for people with pitchforks who cannot tolerate even a pebble threatening the Goliath of the new marriage regime.
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Its because liberals are allowed to Violate laws if done in pursuit of a liberal goal. Liberals make up the rules as they go along and subject all of us to ever shifting criteria of how these situations are viewed.
Exactly
This jerk brown is also pushing a 50% driving reduction law and raising the hell out of our gas prices.
They want to monitor and tax by the mile the way truckers prorate mileage.
California is the example of Democrats on steroids using a super majority vote to overrule ANYTHING the people vote in.
Too many on the dole or government job welfare to get an honest state.
Somethings got to give IMO.
Good point. The left can do what they want these days since they own the judiciary.
Hillary flouted the law... over and over and over again... and might have compromised the county.
Where’s the breathless outrage over Hillary?
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