Posted on 09/02/2015 4:29:48 AM PDT by Nextrush
Rowan County, Kentucky Chief Clerk Kim Davis and her staff will face US District Judge David Bunning after lawyers for two gay couples filed a contempt motion.
The lawyers for the plantiffs want the judge to issue hefty fines against her to force compliance with his earlier order for her issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Yesterday morning, Davis's office again refused to issue marriage licenses to the two same sex couples who appeared at her office again to demand licenses.
Davis issued a statement regarding her decision that says in part.
"I am not perfect. No one is. But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.....I have no amimosity towards anyone. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God's Word. It is a matter of religious liberty, which is protected under the First Amendment, the Kentucky Constitution and in the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Our history is filled with accomodations for people's religious freedom and conscience. I want to continue to perform my duties, but I also am requesting what our Founders envisioned-that conscience and religious freedom would be protected. That is all I am asking. I never sought to be in this position, and I would much rather not have been placed in this position. I have received death threats from people who do not know me. I harbor nothing against them. I was elected by the people to serve as the County Clerk. I intend to continue to serve the people of Rowan County, but I cannot violate my conscience"
We shall soon see what the response of the federal judiciary is, perhaps as early as tomorrow's contempt hearing.
Fines could be coming as the plantiff's lawyers want, but the final decision comes from Judge Bunning.
Kim Davis's opponents have resorted to smear tactics noting her three previous marriages and sex outside of marriage resulting in children.
My Trumpistic brass knuckles response to that "stuff" is this.
We have a national holiday honoring a man who led historic acts of civil disobedience.
Dr. Martin Luther King, a married man and assassinated martyr, was not perfect either as the FBI found out when it recorded his frequent encounters with two prostitutes at a time. Four FBI technicians told author Taylor Branch that Dr. King said "I'm f***ing for God".
nobody is perfect as Kim Davis noted in her statement.
If we are going to assassinate Davis's character and say she isn't worthy of having her conscience respected in this matter, then let us go ahead and cancel Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday.
Since that isn't going to happen, I'm not going to worry about Kim Davis's past and none of us should give a rip about it.
We should be grateful that Davis had the ability to cite a 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act' in Kentucky law.
When attempts were made to pass such laws in Indiana and Arkansas back in the spring, corporate elites like the CEO's of Apple and Wal-Mart stood up and the Republican governors (Mike Pence and Asa Hutchinson) backed down.
When North Carolina's legislature passed religious conscience legislation earlier this year for public officials regarding gay marriage Republican Governor Pat McCrory vetoed it.
Good reminders that our faith and trust should not be in the GOP whose officials slowly rot this nation, but in the GOD who created us all and will strengthen this nation.
And with that faith perhaps we can find meaningful ways to resist evil and bring the politicians along by overwhelming them with that resistance in peaceful and spiritual ways.
That's essentially what Martin Luther King had to do and did back in the 1960's.
There may be some violence along the way like there was in that decade, but it will not be because we wanted it, but because evil people chose to ignite it.
He's hauling her into court to answer why she refuses to obey the court order. I doubt he's going to be in a charitable mood.
They could. But I doubt they will.
The state legislature cannot impeach this judge - he is a federal judge. Only Congress can impeach him.
Yes, and that all occurred before she gave her life to Christ. Should we hold her past against her when God doesn't?
Then she should get a contingent of patriots who will stand ARMED between her and the federal thugs. I guarantee you that the thugs would back down.
I assume you're on the way?
If I were closer and without unbreakable obligations otherwise, you bet.
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