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The letter in question:

An Open Letter to Kim Davis

Dear Kim Davis:

As you may know, when you fall in love with someone, you hand your heart and soul over to them. Anyone who has committed to sharing their life with another human and forming a family unit knows that it is the biggest and most rewarding adventure you will ever take.

You know that all of the laughs and all of the tears won’t fall on the echo of an empty room, but will instead be received in the warm embrace of someone who has pledged to see you at your best and love you at your worst. You know that person is there to help pick you up on those days when the odds are stacked against you. You know that you never have to do the dishes alone.

When I met John, I had no idea that I would spend the next two decades building a life with the man who would one day inspire me to demand our right to be recognized by our country. I earned the right to lawfully call him my husband, just as you have a right to call your husband such. Love transcends gender.

You’re imposing the same indignities on couples in Rowan County that John and I suffered when Ohio would not legally recognize us as a married couple. Thankfully, the law is now changed so that nobody should ever have to experience the injustice that John and I endured. No one is above the law, Kim, not even you.

I joined the fight to have our love treated equally precisely because our love is equal. The love that any family shares is no more or less worthy than that of any other, and it’s not fair for you, or anyone, to judge. It’s your job to simply do your job. Issuing a marriage license at work is not a personal endorsement of my marriage any more than recording a deed is an endorsement of my home ownership.

It’s simply following the rules in this civil society in which we’ve all agreed to be members.

What truly matters is the kindness and compassion we share with our families and with those around us. Love makes a family. And as of June 2015 the federal government agrees.

I did not fight for my right to call John my husband in vain. I stand today in his memory and proudly declare him my legally wedded spouse. Do not stand in the way of others seeking their legal right to have their love recognized.

Sincerely,

Jim Obergefell & 10,245 ACLU Supporters


because our love is equal.

I won't even bother wasting my time at this level of cognitive dissonance. The truly sorry part about it is that there is a significant percentage of Americans who actually agree with him. May God have mercy...

1 posted on 09/30/2015 6:57:08 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Can’t she sue for sexual harassment?


2 posted on 09/30/2015 6:59:05 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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“The truly sorry part about it is that there is a significant percentage of Americans who actually agree with him. May God have mercy...”

Amen, We have Fallen so far!!!


3 posted on 09/30/2015 6:59:49 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: markomalley

It genuinely bothers me that no one attacks the premise of gay marriage:

This is embodied sexism

Marrying the SAME SEX means we don’t need the opposite sex.

We don’t need diversity. We need more of ourselves.

We don’t need the inconvenience of pregnancy.

It is inherently selfish, narcissistic and sexist.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 7:00:42 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: markomalley

It is not possible to legitimately “join” them in a sexual union. They can mutually....whatever, but it is not what nature and nature’s God joined together. It is a perversion of it and no amount of tyranny will change the truth.


5 posted on 09/30/2015 7:03:46 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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I don’t care what reprobates have to say.


6 posted on 09/30/2015 7:03:50 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: markomalley
Well now, could it be that your "husband" died as a result of a disease that befell him from multiple anal sex episodes?

Just askin'.

7 posted on 09/30/2015 7:04:10 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: markomalley

The guy is a mental defective.


8 posted on 09/30/2015 7:04:10 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: markomalley

Faggies hate women. This is legalistic stalking & harassment.


9 posted on 09/30/2015 7:04:21 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I don't like Islam and I don't trust Muslims.")
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To: markomalley
He should have added this.

"You should respect my attraction to a goat too."

"Its just love, and love of goats is equal to love of a human, isn't it? "

10 posted on 09/30/2015 7:06:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Kim Davis is NOT stopping them from marrying or getting a license. Live and let live but that is never enough for tards. You MUST think and believe as they do or you will be hounded for the rest of your lives.

Well, Mark, people are starting to get p!ssed. We’ll see who is hounded and persecuted. Just remember you asked for it.


11 posted on 09/30/2015 7:08:05 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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Jim Faggerrfell is misguided.
He is confusing civil union with Marriage


13 posted on 09/30/2015 7:09:51 PM PDT by mylife
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I didn’t realize that anal sex was love. I must get up to speed on these developments./s


15 posted on 09/30/2015 7:11:19 PM PDT by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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God spoke on the issue. One man and one woman.


16 posted on 09/30/2015 7:12:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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.Jim Obergefell sued when the state of Ohio refused to recognize his and his late husband’s Maryland marriage, in part because he wanted legal recognition as a widower.

so much for the lie that it was about two people in love who wanted to get married. The 'partner' was already gone.

And in Texas there was a lesbian couple seeking Supreme Court attention, they wanted Texas to recognize their marriage so they could get divorced in Texas. Not about love.

18 posted on 09/30/2015 7:14:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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No one is above the law, Kim, not even you.

If only.

Then we wouldn't have the courts making up law, like a constitutional right to gay marriage.

19 posted on 09/30/2015 7:14:18 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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It’s simply following the rules in this civil society in which we’ve all agreed to be members.

Dear Jim,

I did not agree to be a member of the society you envision. You are trying to change the one to which I consened to one I do not.

21 posted on 09/30/2015 7:15:17 PM PDT by GingisK
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The truly sorry part about it is that there is a significant percentage of Americans who actually agree with him.

Yep. They may only be about 2% of the population, but they have a huge number of normal people fooled.

22 posted on 09/30/2015 7:17:57 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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“It’s simply following the rules in this civil society in which we’ve all agreed to be members.”

Faggots ignored society’s rules for centuries.


23 posted on 09/30/2015 7:19:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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Force. Says it all.


25 posted on 09/30/2015 7:21:55 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3335194/posts?page=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/us/holder-says-state-attorneys-general-dont-have-to-defend-gay-marriage-bans.html?_r=1

Feb 24, 2014

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday injected the Obama administration into the emotional and politicized debate over the future of state same-sex marriage bans, declaring in an interview that state attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws that they believe are discriminatory.

Mr. Holder was careful not to encourage his state counterparts to disavow their own laws, but said that officials who have carefully studied bans on gay marriage could refuse to defend them.

Six state attorneys general — all Democrats — have refused to defend bans on same-sex marriage, prompting criticism from Republicans who say they have a duty to stand behind their state laws, even if they do not agree with them.


26 posted on 09/30/2015 7:23:13 PM PDT by Haddit (Minimalists Al Gore and Al Qaeda)
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