[Cboldt]

The object of contempt is to compel compliance with the order. Bunning felt that a fine would not compel complaince, because the fine would have been paid by supporters, not by Davis, and becuase she would "feel no pain" if there was a fine, a fine would not be an effective means of compulsion.

The possibility of immovable object meeting irresistable force always exists in contests between law and conscience. There are many cases where the law adapts to these pressure points, meaning it subordinates itself to conscience. That will not happen in the homo marriage cases, and so, the only option left to conscientious objectors is civil disobedience. Refuse to obey, take your lumps. That's what government is best at, giving lumps and ordering violation of conscience.

[tanknetter]

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.