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 she’s playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now that’s 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. There’s a Kentucky county clerk today. She’s refusing to issue licenses to same-sex marriage couples. She’s 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 it’s 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 court’s decision, their actions are clear,” she said.
“And so I think in this particular case, this woman now needs to make a decision that’s [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 government’s 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 don’t counsel that she continue civil disobedience?” Hewitt asked.
“Given the role that she’s playing, given the fact that the government is paying her salary, I think that is not appropriate. Now that’s my personal opinion. Others may disagree with that, but I think it’s a very different situation for her than someone in a hospital who’s asked to perform an abortion or someone at a florist who’s asked to serve a gay wedding. I think when you’re a government employee, you are put into a different position honestly,” said Fiorina.
Fiorina is a waste of time and only a GOPE spoiler. That is all.
She is not a real candidate.
The only valid goal here in this race is to break the back of the GOPE. None of the Kiddie Table Candidates are in this race to do that. Not even Carson.
Cruz has a modicum of legitimacy because he is hated in DC. However if breaking the business as usual GOPE is the goal, that puts cruze third in a two man race.
Fiorina is just a Hillary who drinks less.
“Booshie in a skirt!” -—————
Absolutely. Carly is farrrr more competent than that witch, Hillary, and would love nothing more than a chance to prove it, but yes, she is liberal, wants to change NOTHING on the social direction, and definitely is quietly pandering to the Chamber of Commerce, I can promise you that.
Doing so is the same economic game that has taken the country down and it involves illegals. Carly will be a UNIPARTY nominee, should she make it.
If she wants to be relevant she should stay off the distracting and irrelevant small topic questions.
Now that’s my personal opinion, any questions?
LOL! Classic.
I know it would only take a short time for her to step in the poo-poo.
Carly wants to "fix" us. In a different way than Hillary of Obama, but we still don't need babysitters.
The real reason why Ronald Reagan was great was the fact that he understood that sovereignty of the people is what makes America great. And he did his level best to get out of our way.
Carly is completely clueless and useless.
She left HP to work for the GOPe.
She worked for McCain.
She worked for Romney.
She was on McCain’s short list for VP. Palin was a mistake by GOPE controllers.
So doctors who get money from Medicare should perform Abortions? What part of “No Religious test shall be given - Article VI” does she not get?
From what I have read this woman in Kentucky is asking for here name to be removed from the documentation.Thats it.She will issue whatever but doesn’t want her name on it so I suppose they need to change her title,shitcan her or put the Governors name on the certificate.
She's a political social climber, won't matter if she wins or not she wants the exposure so she can continue her climb and notoriety. Like Santorum, whatever it takes to get to the next level of inclusiveness into the elites favor. Not to mention she destroyed HP'S stocks during her time as CEO........
I think so too.
Did Fiorina or any other GOP-er’s come out forcefully and say it was inappropriate when county clerks deliberately ignored their states’ laws and issued liscenses to homo couples before the SC’s dictates this past June? Were those county clerks threatened with contempt, fines or jailtime, like this woman is? Were their past marriage histories tossed into the public domain to defame them? What price did they pay for their abject lawlessness?
Yeah, apparently the “rule of law” only has meaning when it services THEIR lefty agenda. When it promotes THEIR moral depravity. And the stupid, impotent GOP just sits back and accepts this insanely-imbalanced paradigm.
The clerk’s not even arguing she needs a law to so specify it—and Fiorina, not nearly my candidate, is right. If her conscience keeps her from performing the clerk’s duties, she should resign.
I don’t want to begin to think of all that Muslim employees would refuse to carry out.
So the conscientious objector is now an inappropriate person, Ms. Fiorina? And if it’s a muslim objecting, that goes for him too? Double dog dare you to say it!
I think all the “dead end” candidates have been promised some kind of job security do nothing jobs in government or in think tanks in order to play the role of spoiler.
the higher the spoiler rank (kiddie table vs direct threat to trump and thus help jeb bush, the better the future job. a form of electoral assassin candidate.
Ben Carson would be easy to pay off as surgeon general in a rino administration.
So Carly, don't count on a vote from Charlie (i.e., me).
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