Posted on 09/02/2015 8:30:34 AM PDT by xzins
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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