Posted on 09/03/2015 8:13:54 PM PDT by massmike
Two clerks, one message.
Casey County Clerk, Casey Davis, vows to join his now famous colleague from Rowan County, Kim Davis.
'I'm trying to help a woman that does not deserve to go to jail, Casey Davis said. This woman has done nothing wrong."
Using vacation time, he will cross the state on a 400-mile bike trip from Pikeville to Paducah to protest against what he considers a public prosecution of a Christian. This as Kim Davis is confronted by the very people she turned away.
"Is this what you want to remember? yelled David Moore, one of the gay men trying to get a marriage license from Kim Davis Tuesday. That you stood up for this? That your children have to look at you and realize that youre a bigot, and you discriminated against people?
Kim Davis asked them to leave. She did not issue any marriage licenses even after a Supreme Court Ruling.
"You're telling us that we don't deserve the same rights as you do, that you have, that you've enjoyed your entire life? Moore asked.
Would you do this to an interracial couple?" he asked her.
"A man and a woman? Kim replied. No."
Despite the pressure, Casey Davis says he won't issue any same sex marriage licenses either.
"I want to be as free as they want to be," Casey said of LGBT couples.
The couple at the center of the video inside the Rowan County Clerks office says the clerks are already free, just outside of their jobs.
"I think that narrative is pretty far from the truth, David Ermold, Moores partner said. This is really, truly just about someone doing their job."
Casey plans on reaching Paducah Friday evening. What he doesn't plan on doing is stepping down and thinks Kim Davis shouldn't have to either.
"This is the job I was elected to, Casey said. If the people of my county my constituents don't want me to have this job when I run again, they'll tell me that."
Casey Davis proposes having the person officiating the wedding issue the marriage license. He says he's got some support from other state leaders.
I don’t think Thomas More would have sanctioned legalized sodomy, a crime that “cries out to heaven for justice.”
Besides, this is simply civil disobedience. The clerks are accepting their civil punishment AFAIK.
I agree, if she wants to accept he punishment, that is her choice. It doesn't make her a martyr.
Of course, I see a great distinction between what is a religious, sacramental marriage and what is a state office that registers people pairing off.
I am Catholic as well. I don’t see that the state needs to be run to satisfy my religious beliefs.
We have free will. People will choose sin. We can’t legislate and ban everything we disagree with.
Yes, homosexuality violates Natural Law. So do a lot of other things.
I agree with this. If we were smart we would have done this a long time ago, instead of elevating this to a SCOTUS issue and then losing.
This. I’ve been saying it for years.
yep
The all-roads “religious doctrine” and pathological liars as “popular” politicians are setting the stage for the biggest deception of all time.
Add in the fact that it’s “cool” with a certain percentage to hate Israel and call for its destruction and you can see the stage is set for the players to come on the scene.
In our moderern era the “goverment”, via the USC and the self annoited king, does not solve issues. They insert themselves in the issue. They invariably discriminate against one group by giving special rights to others. Which doesn’t end DISCRIMINATION it only changes who they discriminate against. They do not solve problems they wizz away tax payers money to appear they are fixing the problem?
Polician’s go along in order to get re-elected.
Anyhow oNce the states excepted the Federal decrees they are beholden to the Crown to follow their rules.
If states, or at least their representatives respected the People to make their own choices..they would get out of what for most is a personal, not a political, choice.
Certainly, marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with the Federal government.
Big Government is almost always the problem.
ALL married couples should send their marriage cirtificates, with void written across it, to 1600 Pennsyvania Ave.
Divorce the government. The government does not have the power to declare anyone married.
-— I see a great distinction between what is a religious, sacramental marriage and what is a state office that registers people pairing off. -—
True, but marriage is a natural institution as well as a sacramental institution. Since the family is the fundamental building block of society, the society and the State have a duty to uphold it. (It’s hard to believe that no fault divorce only came into being in 1970.)
Apparently Judge Bunning, also a Catholic, disagrees.
Unfortunately the state in this country has ceased be ing organized on those types of grounds for quite a while. We have to win hearts and minds before we try to go back
Why are we so unwilling to confront evil?
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