Posted on 09/08/2015 7:50:48 AM PDT by Helicondelta
A federal circuit court judge, David L. Bunning, ordered the Kentucky County Clerk, Kim Davis, to be thrown in jail for refusing to abide by the rulings of the Supreme Court to issue marriage license to gay couples. Kim Davis, a few months ago, refused to issue licenses based on her religious beliefs and filed a motion to the supreme court.
She was sued by some gay couples for this reason and this eventually led to her being thrown in jail.
The judge declined to fine Davis because he said outside sources could easily fund and pay those fines. She was handed over to custody of the U.S. Marshals.
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Hahahahahah....Hahahahaha!
She never filled out an employment application.
She is not an employee.
She wasn't a political appointment.
She was elected!
Every citizen who voted her into office is sharing her jail cell.
She should have asked the judge that since the Constitution does not mention the word marriage what law or statute can he produce that he wants her to conform to. There is not one.
There.
Fixed it for ya.
“It is about PERSECUTING ALL WHO REFUSE TO CONFORM.”
I agree. But it seems to me that anyone issuing a license, if it’s signed or not signed, would still be doing so against the law if ‘gay marriage’ is illegal in KY as laid out in that post.
I don’t think it matters to the Clerk how legitimately KY gets state recognized ‘gay marriage,’ at least from what I understand of her argument.
Freegards
I think there’s more to that here, from a practical politics perspective.
If this results in the election of Matt Bevins as governor, and the installation of a Legislative GOP Majority the first thing that will happen is a law protecting peope like Davis from acting against their conscience.
Followed by:
Passage of Right to Work
Dumping of Common Core
Shutting down the KY state-run ObamaCare exchange.
And, probably quite a number of things I can’t think of right now.
So while Davis may have to take her lumps, the fact that this may likely backfire with a cascading impact into all sorts of other areas means that the promoters will end up taking many more lumps in return.
Yeah whatever bud. So is it really law abiding for a clown car of 5 of 9 SCOTUS judges to overrule the will of the people who decided by proposition elections?
Sickening double standards.
My entire life's experience and knowledge says otherwise.
It is neither.
It is judicial activism law.
Definitely a fruit...
What is this "it" you are referring to? I was speaking of common law in general. Common law is still law, but it is not statutory law. And then there is constitutional law, which likewise has no statutory component.
Appreciate your taking the thought process and speculation a little bit further out, and further afield. I was looking just at the ramifications to Mrs. Davis or any one who chooses to disobey an unconscionable order from the government.
This has been my position the whole time. She is bound to uphold the laws of the State of Kentucky. The only laws in existence that allow her to issue marriage licenses to ANYBODY, are the Kentucky Statutes. Since they specifically prohibit issuing licenses to same sex couples, she did the only reasonable and legal thing possible, which was to deny licenses to everyone.
Until and unless the Kentucky Legislature passes and the Governor signs, some new laws regarding marriage, there is no legal way to get married in Kentucky, and possibly many other states.
All officials are subject to the rule of law, you fat-ass Judge? What about Mayors of Sanctuary Cities? What about Hildabeast emailing classified docs to people without security clearances over unsecured networks?
I’m a big fan of Orson Scott Card’s “Enders Game”. In the book the protegonist, Ender, beats a bully to death not out of anger but of strategic advantage: by beating that one bully to death he puts all other bullies on notice that he can do the same thing to them.
A variation of that principle applies here. Show the Progressives that they can only obtain their sacred cow policies at great political expense - resulting in losses on all sorts of other issues, and they’ll change their behavior.
Case study is how the Democrats largely abandoned gun control in the early 2000s and still shy away from it. Apart from making a lot of inconsequential noise at the national level and implementing what they feel they can in “safe” deep blue states like NY and CT.
Reason is that Al Gore lost a couple states, including his home state Tennessee, to Bush due to the Clinton Assault Weapons ban. All Gore had to do is win one other state, ANY other state, and FL wouldn’t have mattered.
It cost the Democrats the Presidency for eight years. Something they still haven’t forgotten.
“What crime has she been convicted of? “
The crime of “Pi$$ing off a Judge.” These people think they’re more important than God. They will ultimately “discover” that they were wrong. In this case, I just hope he “finds out” sooner rather than later.
My answer/question to the judge is ‘Do you ever look into a mirror and see an exception?. My take is that he doesn’t and if he did he would rule ,like any self serving person, that judges are immune from public opinion.
***I remember decades ago, we used to debate how the Germans could have let the Nazis do the things they did.***
...and like you hint at it is going to get much worse.
“Why wouldn’t she do that?”
Why should she?
So when a judge issues a court order to a mother to give her children to convicted pedophiles...it must be obeyed....its the law of the land!
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