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Same-Sex Marriage Fight Turns to Clerks Who Refuse Licenses
ABC News ^ | June 30, 2015 | By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM

Posted on 06/30/2015 2:56:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

MOREHEAD, Ky. - Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis shut her blinds at work Tuesday to block the view of rainbow-clad protesters outside. They carried flowers and flags and signs saying "you don't own marriage." They chanted "do your job."

Moments later, she told a lesbian couple who walked in asking for a license to try another county.

Davis is among a handful of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Supreme Court and refusing to issue a license to anyone, gay or straight.

"It's a deep-rooted conviction; my conscience won't allow me to do that," Davis told The Associated Press. "It goes against everything I hold dear, everything sacred in my life."

Some judges and clerks in Alabama and Texas have done the same, ordering their offices in the name of religious liberty and free speech to issue no marriage licenses at all.

Legal experts are dubious that religious freedom arguments will protect public officials who not only refuse to participate due to their own beliefs, but also decline to make accommodations so that others who don't object can serve the public instead.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; scotus
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1 posted on 06/30/2015 2:56:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The anal sex crowd.


2 posted on 06/30/2015 2:57:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good for her, but the Gay-Nazis won’t stop. They will keep coming until they win or until you kill them.


3 posted on 06/30/2015 2:58:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
. . . they are defying the U.S. Supreme Court . . .

And why not? The U.S. Supreme Court is defying the constitution that they swore to uphold.

4 posted on 06/30/2015 2:59:42 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was Michelle and the kids gone when Bammy lit the White House with his sodomite salute? I can only imagine what was going on in that White House that night. Bammy top or bottom? I say ‘bottom’!


5 posted on 06/30/2015 2:59:52 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: central_va

If only we had more like her for this battle and the battle flag.
Instead we have reps which are nothing but cowards , minus probably Cruz, Lee,.
Anyone notice rand the panderer Paul is not saying much? Probably because he and his ilk agree with this crap of a contract for homosexuals


6 posted on 06/30/2015 3:01:57 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Good for her, but the Gay-Nazis won’t stop. They will keep coming until they win or until you kill them.

And even then,.... gay-Nazi zombies!

7 posted on 06/30/2015 3:05:24 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read on FB that a county clerk had resigned in N. MS.


8 posted on 06/30/2015 3:06:36 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2010/05/27/washington-insider-obama-member-of-chicago-gay-mans-club/

So funny how now everything is lubricated for the hard, hard left, nothing ever gets any traction...
9 posted on 06/30/2015 3:10:12 PM PDT by golux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Moments later, she told a lesbian couple who walked in asking for a license to try another county.

This thread is useless without pics!

I would have loved to see the shock, disappointment and anger as the two swanned in ready to luxuriate in officialdom, convinced that a mundane piece of paper would validate them to their families, friends and the entire world.

10 posted on 06/30/2015 3:10:31 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So the State will now discriminate against the religious...even though it is explicitly against the law.


11 posted on 06/30/2015 3:10:59 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: DiogenesLamp

These pathetic perverts don’t care whom they step on or how many lives they ruin to get their evil way.


12 posted on 06/30/2015 3:11:29 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: relictele

“...convinced that a mundane piece of paper would validate them...”

The clerk could have done like they did in the old western’s - scribble something on a scrap of paper “to make it all official and such”.


13 posted on 06/30/2015 3:13:26 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: central_va

It is time for Christians to stand up and stand fast in their beliefs no matter what the cost! We did not pick this fight but now that it’s here, we need to stand by our Faith and beliefs.


14 posted on 06/30/2015 3:16:43 PM PDT by teletech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The tolerant response is to burn her at the nearest stake or stoning.


15 posted on 06/30/2015 3:18:16 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who knew the Mark of the Beast would be rainbow colored....


16 posted on 06/30/2015 3:18:29 PM PDT by Mechanicos (Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
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To: Mechanicos

i think they started using the rainbow to spit in the face of God who displayed the rainbow as a sign he wouldn’t wipe out the earth again after the flood. killing the debauched masses.


17 posted on 06/30/2015 3:24:52 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone all iCommentaries I p44)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yeah, one bit of lawlessness begets another.
It’s just that their lawlessness is backed up by a gun to the head.

This clerk needs the local sheriff intercepting that gun to the head.


18 posted on 06/30/2015 3:26:13 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The more I see that pic the more I am inclined that it was Photo shopped and made just to piss everyone off.

Is there any way using flood lights would yield such a straight and differential line of contrast right in the center? Am I wrong on this?

19 posted on 06/30/2015 3:27:31 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Here’s one of the keys - the symbol of the rainbow denoting God’s promise has 7 colors, the number of God.
The number of Man and the Beast is 6, which is what the gaystapo use in their flag.


20 posted on 06/30/2015 3:27:45 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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