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.
Carly’s Establishment trail is so much worse than Trump’s.
Carly had no reason to play footsie with the Establishment boys, but that she believes in the liberal UniParty.
At least Trump roars against puppets, and he did vote Republican, even as he was a Democrat to do business in NYC, (the city of the LEFT). I can get that.
Agree, completely, with your entire post.
The government via judicial fiat is selecting atheists (approved) vs Christians (disapproved) as winners and losers in what is an approved religion.
It is long past time to purge the law schools from the ivory tower.
If (anything) benefits the Left, it’s ok.
If (anything) benefits the right, it’s inappropriate
The topics change, the actions never do.
At the debate I crossed off Trump and Kasich as possibilities to vote for. Yesterday I crossed off Christie. Today I cross off Fiorina. The field is narrowing. I like Cruz the best.
I’m guessing the non-Christian/Pseudo-Christian does not understand about REAL Christianity.
The corporate statist reveals she does not believe in limited government, freedom of religion, states rights, or individual liberty.
Serious question. What is wrong with a Canadian wall?
Just because they are not overflowing that border NOW does not mean they won’t be in the future, especially if the southern border becomes secure. Is ISIS less a threat if they come from the north?
WTF?
The judicial supremacist lie is a coup d’etat against constitutional republican self-government.
And like most “Republican” leaders today, Fiorina is infected with it.
As is virtually the entire 2016 Republican field.
The only one who has shown any real sign of breaking loose of it is Huckabee. And even he still hasn’t thought things all the way through. He’s still got several critical things dead wrong.
So Fio also disregards the 10th Amendment. She would be another fed diktat type.
I like that!
I don't think they've solved the technical problem of running it through the Great Lakes.
Her quote...."I have such great admiration and empathy for Hillary Clinton. I have great admiration for her because I know what it takes in some small measure to do what she has done. She is obviously incredibly intelligent, focused, tough, determined, empathetic of all the tens of millions of people that she was trying to represent in her quest to become the first woman president of the United States."
What’s wrong with wanting a Canadian wall?
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but don’t these two men have OTHER options to get what is laughingly called a “marriage” license?
Someone said in another thread they can get a JUDGE to issue one...and a judge supposedly offered.
Instead, these two men WANT to force the woman to do it instead.
Well, that narrows the field in a timely fashion.
Since I'm not apologetic or PC about my view of the pink Mafia, this is a total game changer for me. No compromise possible.
Bye, Carly.
I have no desire to see my culture controlled by either the most racist subculture of my lifetime, nor the pro-sodomy crowd.
Period.
My point was that she could and should refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
As far as Abortions go, it is MURDER in the First Degree.
That is my opinion, what is yours?
Its called civil disobedience Carly.
I hate to see this straw many repeated endlessly.
Christianity has NOTHING to do with my view. My rejection of perversions is based on 4000 years of civilized human culture and biological realities.
Strictly a secular view.
..."I would support the DREAM Act because I do not believe that we can punish children who through no fault of their own are here trying to live the American dream."
And open to granting the parents citizenship as well…
"I think legal status is a possibility for sure."
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"Carly defended Islam" following 9/11....
Fiorina praised Islam in a speech just two weeks after 9/11– with hundreds of mutilated bodies still buried in rubble at Ground Zero…
...She says,..." America is “indebted” to the Islamic civilization, whose “gifts are very much a part of our heritage.".....“When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.”.......Under Suleiman three continents were “allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known.”.. And,... the “Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent … contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.”
Now that CNN rigs the debate to favor Carly, we're going to have to sit through two hours of the liberal Republican tell us how conservative she is! And how she fought her way into the debate because she's a woman.....
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