Posted on 09/04/2015 1:10:26 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The Kentucky county clerk, jailed for failing to follow a judge’s orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, wants her name removed from the marriage certificates, her attorney Matthew Staver told ABC News.
“She has a very strong conscience and she’s just asking for a simple remedy, and that is, remove her name from the certificate and all will be well,” Staver said. “That simple remedy has simply been ignored by the court and by the governor and that’s what should have been done.
“I think it’s reprehensible that she’s in jail for this when a simple fix could have been easily handled.”
Marriage licenses in Kentucky are required to include an authorization statement of the county clerk issuing the license. Some state lawmakers, as well as the Kentucky County Clerks Association, have suggesting having clerks' names removed from marriage licenses. Staver said at a news conference this afternoon Davis "has no intention to resign."
“She will never violate her conscience," Staver said to reporters.
In the meantime, five of Davis’ deputies – facing the prospect of jail time themselves – started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at the Rowan County Courthouse today. A sixth clerk, Kim Davis' son, remains a holdout but has not been jailed.
"I don't really want to, but I will comply with the law," deputy clerk Melissa Thompson said in court Thursday, weeping while she stood before the packed courtroom. "I'm a preacher's daughter and this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
"I don't hate anybody," she added. "None of us do."
Davis’ stay in jail has not made her reconsider her stance, Staver said.
“One thing about Kim, she may be incarcerated behind the jail bars but her conscience remains free.
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All they have to do is taking her name off the certificates
but they would rather feed her to the lions
Spelling: Mathew “Mat” Staver’s first name has only one t.
I am afraid that the Pope is auditioning for either the role of Antichrist or False Prophet, so don’t expect much help from him.
That seems like a very reasonable remedy. Why does the clerk’s name need to be on the certificate?
What do you know, a common sense solution.
And they ignore the fact that issuing licenses with her name over the county clerk’s objections make them null and void.
“I don’t really want to, but I will comply with the law,” deputy clerk Melissa Thompson said in court Thursday, weeping while she stood before the packed courtroom.
This is why i HATE China.
oh wait...
Don’t hold your breathe on this in regards to the Pope. He probably doesn’t want to upset his leftist buddies.( I would prefer to be wrong about this.)
Don’t be surprised if the Pope lectures us on immigration and disses Trump maybe not by name but we will know to whom he is referring.
Kim Davis Uproar Shows That Breaking The Law Is Only Okay When Progressives Do It
Of course they would rather destroy her, and this solution would be the easy way out, but from another thread, I read that Kentucky statute requires the Clerk's signature for a marriage license to be valid.
As I heard on TV last night a judge or other official offered to sign the certificates. The gays said ‘NO’ they want Davis’ signature on it.
Way past time for Christians and/or the ‘silent majority’ to push back.
The pope has no more legal standing before Congress than a Buddhist Priest from Tibet or a shaman from Africa.
Wow. Only her. Just wow.
Capitulation is complicity. Kentucky and every State must stand up to this lawless edict.
this has been the point since day 1 and it is only now being addressed.....if it was addressed and handled it would have shut the discussion down and much to the angst of the radicals and the MSM as it didn’t fit an agenda,the homosexual 1.5% agenda the Politically Correct and hopefully soon dissolved agenda
Just have the US Supreme Court issue every marriage certificate then, that should keep them busy
She doesn’t work for SCOTUS. She works for the state of Kentucky and Kentucky Law did not change.
The gays said ‘NO’ they want Davis’ signature on it.
thats just indicates how the queers are shopping for trouble
The perverts are demanding everyone else endorse perversion. And the perverts will use force because we now have many perverts in government.
“The gays said ‘NO’ they want Davis’ signature on it.”
The demons, speaking through the sodomite’s bodies they possess, went after Davis, trying to get her to join them in denying God.
Prayers up for Davis.
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