Posted on 09/01/2015 3:09:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
Upon her election to the role of Rowan County Clerk in November 2014, Kim Davis said she felt "humbled" and "blessed." Speaking to the Morehead News, she made three promises: "I promise to each and every one that I will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter."
Davis's willingness, or unwillingness, to follow those statutes are now the subject of intense national focus. She has refused on religious grounds to grant marriage licenses -- to both same-sex or opposite-sex couples -- in the wake of June's historic Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide ...
Signing marriage licenses is one of the main duties for the county clerk. But Davis, a 49-year-old Apostolic Christian, objects to having to put her name on documents that recognize same-sex marriages ...
According to Rowan County records obtained by BuzzFeed News, Davis has been divorced three times. When she married Joe Davis on Aug. 24, 2009, it was her fourth marriage -- and her second to Joe, whom she previously married on the same day 13 years earlier. After her first marriage to Dwain Wallace in 1984, she married Thomas McIntyre Jr. in 2007 in between her marriages to Joe ...
Davis has worked as a clerk in Rowan County for more than 25 years. In May 2014 -- while serving as chief deputy in the clerk's office -- she narrowly won the Democratic nomination for the top job by 23 votes ...
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No matter how many pieces of paper they get, they still won't be "married".
I would taser the SOBs
It’s not “religious grounds” to refuse to play make believe.
It’s simply a refusal to believe and validate a lie.
Beast.gov is out to punish everyone who won’t accept *it* as the ultimate authority on truth.
Beast.gov is waging a war against those who are still in their right minds.
Byzantine Canon (Church) Law grew out of the civil law of the Eastern Roman Empire and continues to govern the various Orthodox churches.
Second marriages (whether following divorce or widowhood) are permitted, but the wedding liturgy has a slightly penitential tone; third marriages are reluctantly permitted and the liturgy is VERY penitential; fourth marriages are absolutely forbidden.
IIRC, a judge in the county has offered to issue the marriage license legally.
The two men do not want that—they apparently want to FORCE Kim Davis to do so.
If this information is accurate, then it isn’t about the ceremony, it is about shoving an ideology down the throat of someone who has deep religious and moral objections to the act.
Try telling them that!
I hope she doesn’t give in.
"The agency shall promulgate rules..."
Has her superior ordered her to give out marriage licenses to people of the same sex?
If so, she should resign.
If not, she’s doing fine.
Who cares how many times she was married?
Are you serious/ This woman has been married 4 times. That is atrocious. She is a laughingstock. She does conservatives a disservice in our anti-gay marriage. We can do better then this woman as our representative. I wish we had someone who took marriage seriously being our role model on this. Sad situation that we are stuck with.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I agree! God Bless her!!
Where exactly is that in the Bible? What if your first three spouses died?
Makes a mockery of traditional marriage, don't you think?
The Supreme Court has implemented the requirement for changing the definition of marriage. The Court is not a state, and their ruling is not a law.
She’s an elected official so her superiors would probably be the county voters. It will be interesting to see what their verdict is.
She became a Christian 4 years ago and is still married to the same person she was then. So, as per usual with those groups, they have serious problems with telling the truth.
She is still married to the same person she was married to when she became a Christian.
yes, it does, sadly.
Right - our statute in Kentucky was declared unconstitutional. So no licenses can be issued to anyone until our statutes are brought into compliance with the SCOTUS ruling. She is not granting licenses to anyone, so everyone is being treated “equally”.
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