If a law is clearly unConstitutional, you SHOULD not obey it. You are not obliged to obey an unconstitutional statute or edict of a court, no matter what the judge says. However, you may wind up paying the penalty or spending time in jail. This is the trappings of Tyranny and the small little steps of oppression creeping into our society.
When she took office there was no legal QUEER MARRIAGES,
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exactly...I mentioned this to someone from my church today..
when she took the oath of her office she swore to fulfill faithfully the laws pertaining to that office as they were written then...
She hasn’t broken any law..
CAPITAL LETTERS make you important.
Either practice civil disobedience because you feel a law is unjust and pay the price, or change the law. As someone suggested, if the state just got out of the marriage license business, there would be nothing to give out. Otherwise, ignore federal law at your own peril, as many have done in the past.
Well, folks. A Christian has been put in JAIL!!!
In our lifetimes, for her religious beliefs.
The Federal government doesn’t follow immigration law. Put obunmmer in jail.
I hope Trump goes insane over this. Not because he is the only one, because he gets the most attention. Here’s his chance to REALLY prove what he is.
I’ll join any protest and will try to start one on my own on Staten Island.
THEY HAVE CROSSED THE LINE!!!
She broke an unconstitutional law.
The judge denied her, her first amendment rights.
The law is clear and the judge is in the wrong.
Unfortunately she is being railroaded by a misguided judge.
Five Justices on the Supreme Court have overturned the votes of 50 million Americans and demanded that the American people walk away from millennia of history and the reality of human nature.
In reaching a decision so lacking in foundation in the text of the Constitution, in our history, and in our traditions, the Court has done serious damage to its own legitimacy.
Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage adds:
We urge the American people and future presidents to regard today’s decision just as President Abraham Lincoln regarded the Dred Scott ruling when he said in his first inaugural address that “if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
So IMHO it sounds wishy washy, you can do this either way...
The Supreme Court decides if a ‘law’ is a ‘law’ but can’t make a law unless voted upon by the citizens...have we done that? Has there ever been a vote on this as a nation or has there ever been a vote by each state?
I’d probably agree with you but I won’t read a post with so many capital letters. Try it again without 90% of the caps.
Judges have civil immunity for their actions as judges, so suing the judge will accomplish nothing.
Where is the local sheriff, and why did he allow her to be taken into custody?
I have to admit this is all new to me. I would’ve thought it was now a law.
If this is the way it is then all these lawyers out there, the judge who ordered her to the clink, who btw is a Republican, what of them?
To follow this intensely.
No.
I can prove she broke no law.
She is not in jail for breaking the law. She is being held on CONTEMPT OF COURT.
If she had broken the law , then they could have charged her with a crime.
They can’t, they haven’t.
dem jail her for an illegal law
gop refuse to jail dem for breaking existing law
disgusted with gop everyday
I don’t understand why the judgey guy got his Depends all in a wad. Contempt of the “courts” is quite common in America these days. The “courts” are way out of control. The judgeys are ordering criminals to be released to make room for innocent people.
The thing that everyone is missing here is that the homosexuals could have gone to just about any other county in Kentucky to get that license but no they chose to take her on because she said she would stand by her convictions. Typical liberal gay stance, “ I am going to force you to do it my way. I have all the rights and unless you accept my beliefs you are a bigot.” If I was dying to be married, I would have run to any county to get a license. I wouldn’t be fighting with a clerk I knew wasn’t going to issue me a license. Mrs Davis was not keeping them from being married, they made that choice.
Nope, no law was broke. The Supreme Court issues rulings. It’s then incumbent upon congress to pass laws comporting to those rulings. But congress is too chicken and it’s too politically dangerous to actually do their jobs. So she’s abiding by the only law she can recognize..those on the books for her county.
the sureme court never made law that county clerks must issue marriage licences. So she broke no law.
My guess is this is the type of judicial system actions we will see under the now United States of LGBT, they only adhere to a constitution with one article: BOHICA.
If this woman goes on a hunger strike, I wonder if they will force feed her.
15 years ago, gay marriage was an absurd joke. It still is, but now it’s law.
I have nothing but contempt for the federal government now.
So if I understand the SCOTUS ruling, the laws that make marriage only between a man and a woman are unconstitutional. Ok, we don’t agree with the ruling but nothing in their ruling changes the Kentucky law as it stands on the books.
This clerk has decided to not issue any license (including heterosexual marriages). That seems like a reasonable approach considering there is no valid marriage law on the books in Kentucky.
The court did not rewrite each state’s marriage law but they have invalidated ones that specify traditional marriage.
Unfortunately judges act like kings.
“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
- Thomas Jefferson