Posted on 09/06/2015 11:58:27 AM PDT by conservative98
Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that state marriage clerks should issue same-sex marriage licenses even if they morally oppose the practice.
Kasich added that government employees are responsible for obeying the law upon assuming their positions.
“Now, I respect the fact that this lady doesn’t agree, but she’s also a government employee,” he said of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who is currently jailed in Kentucky for being in contempt of court after refusing to sign same-sex marriage certificates
“She’s not running a church,” Kasich told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” “I wouldn’t force this on a church, but in terms of her responsibility, I think she has to comply.”
“I don’t like the fact that she’s sitting in jail, that’s just as absurd as well,” added Kasich, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate. “But I think she should follow the law.”
U.S. Marshalls took Davis into custody last Thursday following her steadfast refusal to obey court orders. Rowan County then began issuing same-sex marriage licenses last Friday during Davis’s absence from its offices.
Kasich admitted on Sunday he is worried the standoff is alienating people from observing any religious beliefs.
“I believe in traditional marriage, but the court has ruled,” he said, citing the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legitimizing same-sex marriage nationwide last June.
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Why? She can resist tyranny all she can stand.
Kasich has gone the way of Paul Ryan. Like Ryan, JK could have been one of the greats.
But they both chose mediocrity as a way of life.
Spoken like a true bureaucratic bastard with absolutely no principles.
and I don’t have to vote for Kasich, either
Pandering buffoon.
Scared of his shadow and foolishly thinks the cool kids will like him and not bully him if he picks on the outcast girl.
-PJ
The SC ruling on this is in and of itself unconditional. More leftwing social engineering. They’ll be making new SC nominees promise to uphold this absurd ruling in order to get confirmation. Just like roe v wade. Asinine. There’s never been such a thing as a federal marriage license. This is a state issue. What a clusterf**k.
I’m looking for the guy who will stand with Kim Davis. If he won’t stand with her, he isn’t going to stand with me.
This is pretty important.
Go sit in the loser corner with your amigo, Jebbie.
You shouldn't worry so much about a brave county clerk making a lonely stand on principle.
Make your speech about Obama, Holder and Hillary's wanton lawlessness and treason at the highest levels of our government and then you might be on to something.
Wrong Answer McFry.
When will people get it straight that the ONLY test for federal action is THE CONSTITUTION.
NO ONE HAS TO COMPLY WITH UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL DECISIONS, LAWS, AND ACTS.
When the feds nullify the Constitution, the ONLY source of valid federal authority, then it is up to the states and the people to nullify the feds.
They are trying to force med students to perform abortions as part of their training. Its coming. Its not far away, that if you won’t do one, you won’t graduate.
Kasich needs a spinal implant. Maybe Planned Parenthood could furnish one for him?
“You will be assimilated.”
FUJK
Why? Nobody else is.
Yet, sanctuary city mayors are free to ignore the law.
That’s the “Nuremberg defense”, “I was only following orders”.
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