Posted on 09/02/2015 8:30:34 AM PDT by xzins
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told the Hugh Hewitt show on Tuesday that it was “inappropriate” for a Kentucky clerk to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
“Given the role that she’s playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now that’s my personal opinion,” said Fiorina.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, an elected official, vowed not to resign Tuesday under threat of fines and jail time after deciding not to issue marriage licenses to any couples - straight or gay - rather than be forced to comply with the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered her to issue the licenses, and an appeals court affirmed that order. The Supreme Court refused to intervene Monday, leaving her no legal option to refuse. She faces a potential misdemeanor charge of official misconduct for refusing to perform her duties, the Associated Press reported.
“And let me close our conversation by throwing a hard one at you. There’s a Kentucky county clerk today. She’s refusing to issue licenses to same-sex marriage couples. She’s in comtempt of court in essence. What would your advice be to her?” Hewitt asked Fiorina on Tuesday.
“First, I think that we must protect religious liberties with great passion and be willing to expend a lot of political capital to do so now, because it’s clear religious liberty is under assault in many, many ways. Having said that, when you are a government employee, I think you take on a different role,” Fiorina said.
“When you are a government employee as opposed to say, an employee of another kind of organization, then in essence, you are agreeing to act as an arm of the government, and while I disagree with this court’s decision, their actions are clear,” she said.
“And so I think in this particular case, this woman now needs to make a decision that’s [about] conscience: Is she prepared to continue to work for the government, be paid for by the government, in which case she needs to execute the government’s will, or does she feel so strongly about this that she wants to sever her employment with the government and go seek employment elsewhere where her religious liberties would be paramount over her duties as a government employee,” the former Hewlett Packard CEO said.
“You don’t counsel that she continue civil disobedience?” Hewitt asked.
“Given the role that she’s playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now that’s my personal opinion. Others may disagree with that, but I think it’s a very different situation for her than someone in a hospital who’s asked to perform an abortion or someone at a florist who’s asked to serve a gay wedding. I think when you’re a government employee, you are put into a different position honestly,” said Fiorina.
Actually, Fiorna is wrong.
She’s wrong in terms of standing up to tyranny, of course, proving she has no spine.
But she’s also wrong legally. As has been pointed out by legal freepers, the current Kentucky law says that the clerk cannot hand down marriage licenses to homosexual couples. The Supreme Court struck down that law, so now there is NO LAW on the subject in the Kentucky books. That means this clerk is right to wait for the Kentucky legislature to pass a new law.
Scotus has changed the law or struck down the law. Doing NOTHING is the proper response. The Supreme Court did not rewrite the law. That is a legislative function.
Who knows what the Kentucky legislature will come up with?
I’ve heard that one possibility is that they will have entirely new paperwork that requires no input whatsoever from any clerk.
I remember that a couple of centuries ago a small group of people stood up to the edicts of HRH George III.
Booshie in a skirt!
Fiorna IS DONE, as far as any Christian voting for her should go.
Why is it seemingly always inappropriate for good people to stand up for principle, such as Tea Party types, but then the whole of the corrupt MSM pant over themselves about the thugs in Ferguson, or support lies of the left such as “unarmed black teen”?
Ever notice this? And Fiorina piling on strikes me as pandering to the NYTimes. That is a disqualification of Fiorina in my book.
North Carolina actually passed a law that allows magistrates and clerks with religious objections to same-sex marriage to opt out of issuing licenses.
This should and ought to be an easy fix for Kentucky that accommodates both gay couples and individual religious employees.
Who asked Fiorina? What a loser. Next she’ll defend Walker’s Canadian Wall. How many H1B’s does she support? Top Cruz’s 500% increase?
If I were the Kentucky legislature and had a bit of humorous side...I’d make a all-in-one license (hunting-fishing-marriage-etc). Then I’d make the license valid for one single year, and you had to keep showing up on the 365th day, to re-register your ‘all-in-one’. Then I’d stamp it on the bottom....valid only within the state of Kentucky for that one-year period. Hand it back to the federal judge then and just let him sit there in a daze.
Fiorina says “inappropriate” for the clerk of Gallia Narbonensis to refuse to offer a pinch of incense to the shade of the Divine Emperor.
Maybe put another way, is there anything she won’t pander on? She’s become the affirmative action candidate who had to get special rule change just for her. Pathetic, thought better of the Republican party.
So I suppose if the clerk would be ordered to shoot gay couples and refused it would be wrong also.
Carly shoots herself in the other foot.
And she’s toast.
Be interesting to see if she shares that “pearl of wisdom” on the big stage? Would be a sure ticket back to the kids table
Light those ovens, you have your orders. You work for the Fuhrer, he pays your salary, so no whining.
Carly is nothing but a hillary hack...she should be running with hillary, not against her...
Fiorina is officially off my list.
She needs to grow a spine. Her first response should have been “let’s fight to protect everyone’s religious rights”.
Should be.
Isn’t.
Oh Carly! Laws are just suggestions now.
Son of Jim Bunning.
Nice work if you can get it.
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