She holds the key to her jail cell: Resign her office, and the jail cell door opens and she walks out a free woman.
The right to freedom of religion cannot be the right to do whatever one’s religion requires when acting as an elected government official. Otherwise, that excuse could be used to justify whatever any politician wanted to do or not do, regardless of the law and regardless of the orders and decisions of courts.
Unless you can point to the limitation language in the 1st about shall not prohibit the free expression thereof. And point to where the federal govt was given the authority to make a law respecting an establishment of religion - of which marriage always has been then do not play the law game. its clear the court is wrong here and shes standing up for clearly defined fundamental rights in the US Constitution.
A quick skim of your page is puzzling indeed.
You don’t seem very conservative, while in some of your prior posts you seem to display outright hostility to the Constitution.
On this issue of sodomy you insist that Kim Davis somehow violated the “law” by refusing to validate sodomy with a state marriage license.
You say that following one’s religious beliefs while performing official duties, somehow violates the “law”. In fact, the Constitution plainly forbids the prohibition of religious expression, but that is the least of it.
Those arguing against you are saying, rightly, that the “law” you claim Ms.Davis violated, was fabricated hocus-pocus, out of thin air, by SCOTUS, and is thus no law at all (in fact it’s an interpretation, an opinion, with no mandate for unquestioning obedience) while the Kentucky law defining marriage as between one man and one woman, was enacted appropriately by state legislature and is binding.
There is nothing in the Constitution (which you seem to disdain and would apparently prefer to discard anyway) that allows SCOTUS to usurp the Congress or the states legislatures’ role in writing laws; in fact, the Constitution expressly forbids this. Nothing in the Constitution speaks to marriage at all, nor allows any judge to redefine it, by simply saying sodomy is equal to marriage, thus shall it be.
In fact, in state after state, the lawful authority of voters and legislatures have been disregarded by local authorities and unlawfully swept away by activist judges acting solo, or perhaps under financial coercion or threat of blackmail. These are the people, not Kim Davis, who have decided to disregard laws they don’t like.
Neither SCOTUS nor any judge has any authority to redefine marriage, just as they had no authority to declare a child’s life as a mother’s chattel, disposable at her convenience.
Idiot.
What? As an elected official, she isn't there to just perform a duty, but also as a representative for the community which elected her. If the community was unhappy with how she performed her duties, they petit I n for a recall, or simply elect someone else. In this particular instance, there is no outrage from the public that elected her.
The freedom of religion is clearly recognized, not granted, in the 1st amendment. It does not include any caveats or exceptions that I am aware of, nor does it state that one must ignore their beliefs if serving in some official capcity.
Actually the government is the one under obligation here.
Every job or position I have held required reasonable accommodation provisions...
‘and the free exercise there of’
hmmm....that is not sounding like the limitation you want to put in place... I don’t see anywhere where it says because they are an elected official, own a business, bake cakes, appointed staff, or are a CEO of a company.
Does the 14th amendment trump the 1st Amendment, just because a cultural norm changes?
“She holds the key to her jail cell: Resign her office, and the jail cell door opens and she walks out a free woman.”
Yes, she could walk out of that cell a free woman if she’d just give up her government job that requires her to perform an act and sign her name to an act she believes is against the laws of the Creator. She believes it is an act that will condemn her to an eternity of suffering, meted out in a much higher court than the Supreme Court of the United States. Why, she could start her own business in which she could serve whomever she chose....oh wait! No she couldn’t! Kim Davis is in jail but no more than all of us Christians here in this country since our government turned into a dictatorship. And the tyrants are far from finished with our cell. It gets smaller and more confining every day.
She should. Then they should have a special election to fill the county clerk position and re-elect her. Make the sons of gun arrest her again. Make it as expensive and as much trouble as possible for the state and the government to make her go away.