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 shes playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now thats 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. Theres a Kentucky county clerk today. Shes refusing to issue licenses to same-sex marriage couples. Shes 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 its 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 courts decision, their actions are clear, she said.
And so I think in this particular case, this woman now needs to make a decision thats [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 governments 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 dont counsel that she continue civil disobedience? Hewitt asked.
Given the role that shes playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now thats my personal opinion. Others may disagree with that, but I think its a very different situation for her than someone in a hospital whos asked to perform an abortion or someone at a florist whos asked to serve a gay wedding. I think when youre a government employee, you are put into a different position honestly, said Fiorina.
and another one bites the dust ...
Why is it that no one ever go after Muslims? We are the only one’s they target but Jesus already said that they would!
And in my universe, the field is down to 12.
Wheeeee.
I congratulate you on your reserve. I think that I would have been a lot more harsh on this wanna-be.
Fiorina is a Big Government Statist! — Jim Robinson (5/25/2010, 5:21:20 PM)
Shes [Fiorina] an abortionist. Im dismayed that Sarah lowered herself to endorse her. — Jim Robinson (5/14/2010, 5:21:20 PM)
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Carly, you just made 50,000 enemies at FR. You’ll be sniffing Jeb’s jock strap poll numbers by next week.
These a******s still don't get it.
The historic legacy at this time in our Republic's legacy, is the permanent ban, finally, of the turn of the 20th Century and Clintonesque political and Constitutional crime of Party over Country.
This is one of the major causes of ALL of the current country's ills.
I like Cruz the best also.
But I want to demolish the GOP.
That would be Cruz or Trump.
All the others are GOPers, some all the way to the bone.
Some might not like Trump, but I’ve no doubt he’ll kill the old GOP. They hate him and the feelings mutual.
You’ll say, ‘but he has been liberal, etc., etc. The difference is that the GOP has claimed to be conservative but been liberal in their hearts and their actions, blocking the very conservatism we have voted for and siding with Obama on everything from illegals to planned parenthood. How can Trump do any worse than that? I don’t think he can. Or will.
In either case, I see a chance to change the GOP-E.
Praised the Baltimore DA Mosley for indicting 6 innocent Cops
Ran HP and Lucent into the ground and is the current hope of the GOPe
I will never vote for Carly.
Pandering Cow alert!!
Get the lawyers out of the religious beliefs of our citizens.
Here is how I’m looking at the 17 as of now:
Yes) Cruz
Maybe) Walker, Rubio, Jindal
Meh) Bush, Carson, Gilmore, Huckabee, Paul, Perry, Santorum
No) Christie, Fiorina, Graham, Kasich, Pataki, Trump
I recommend a Canadian wall. You wouldn’t know this was Canada in some areas - we’re bursting with those who would do harm.
Yes. It’s true. Same as the bakers. They could have gone to any number of bakeries.
Exactly-—You either obey the Rule of Law ( “...the Laws of Nature and nature’s God”)-—our system of “Justice” (virtue)-—or you obey “Rule of Man” where any irrational, evil, vile concept can be made “Good” and a “Natural Right from God”.
Laws antithetical to the Supreme Law (Constitution) are “null and void”-—Justice John Marshall and the Nuremberg Trials.
How irrational for ANYONE to “think” sodomizing others is equivalent to true marriage which can generate Life. It literally removes Reason and Science from Just Law (impossible/unconstitutional) and injects paganism/satanism—a forced religion which is the opposite of Christianity and uses humans as a “Means to an End” (Marxism/unconstitutional).
It is a satanic religion to force the vice of sodomy onto a Christian Justice System which is what Western Civilization had until the satanic, pagans took over the indoctrination system to destroy Wisdom and Truth/God in our children-—to turn them into irrational Eastern “thinkers” where there was never an Age of Reason or Modern Science until the Christian Worldview permeated their cultures.
If muslims illegal arrivals are immediately deported and permanently banned from entry to the US under any circumstances, no wall should be necessary.
Ditto for illegal Alien Mexicans IAMs.)
We still have immigration and citizenship laws, and if they are enforced, no silly debates would be necessary.
Carly was on with Laura Ingraham this morning, and Laura was pretty gushy over her. Shortly afterward, Laura was defending the clerk. I didn’t catch the whole interview with Carly, but I wonder if this was touched on.
That's what they want, but we know the Constitution says there can be no religious test for this clerk to hold her office.
The liberals will redefine that to mean "she signed on for the job, so she must violate her religious conscience when conducting her official duties."
God will understand that, of course, since His book is full of political exception clauses. /sarc
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