“Are you going to stand up for the rights of a Muslim county clerk...?”
And what about you, Alberta’s Child?
Are you going to stand up for some lawyers to make up fake rights out of whole cloth while exceeding all authority to do so? Are you going to stand up for mindless “law” over morality, judgment and common law?
Look, one doesn’t have to like *how* this lady is handling her personal situation. But one ought to respect the fact she is trying to DO something that is lawful in Kentucky about an unlawful (and immoral!) dictate from the higher court.
“The stay request offers several options such as removing Davis’s name from the marriage license, thus removing the personal nature of the authorization,” Staver pointed out. “Another accommodation would be to allow licenses to be issued by the chief executive of Rowan County or developing a statewide, online marriage license process,” Staver suggested. “There is absolutely no reason that this case has gone so far without reasonable people respecting and accommodating Kim Davis’s First Amendment rights,” Staver concluded.
Let's be brutally honest, though ... at the end of the day this is all just a circus. Even Davis' own lawyer is proposing a whole bunch of options that would allow his client to extricate herself from the marriage licensing process but wouldn't do anything to stop it from moving forward. This does nothing to alter the reality of what is going on here. The real issue at hand is not -- and never should have been -- a question of whether Kim Davis should be allowed to keep her job while refraining from taking part in any "same-sex marriage" formalities. The real issue is whether the State has any moral or legal ground to stand on when it licenses these things in the first place.