Posted on 09/04/2015 2:46:16 AM PDT by markomalley
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed that the jailing of Rowan County, Kentucky Democratic Clerk Kim Davis “could be the last front in a losing battle against same-sex marriage” as she had been refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage on June 26.
While the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all led with Davis being jailed and how she had cited her Christian faith in declining to issue licenses, they have yet to mention in any of their coverage in past three days that Davis is a Democrat.
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Reporting from Kentucky for CBS, national correspondent Dean Reynolds explained that “supporters of Kim Davis engaged in a fire-and-brimstone rally” as “they tried to make the legal tide turn in her favor, but in the quiet of his courtroom, Judge David Bunning made it clear that he would not be swayed.”
Turning to NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt described Davis as “defiant” with “[h]igh drama as protests rage on both sides” outside the federal courthouse in Ashland, Kentucky.
Inside, Holt hyped that the judge “drew a clear line as to where religious freedom ends and the law of the land begins” with his decision as the Democratic county clerk unsuccessfully “stood her ground.”
Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez included in his segment a nod to social media, reporting that it “lit up in response both in favor of and appalled by the judge's ruling” and touted the following response to the situation from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest: “There is no public official that is above the rule of law.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, anchor David Muir billed the story as “the showdown” with Davis “now hauled off to jail” and “behind bars after refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples.”
Correspondent Alex Perez told viewers that “[t]he showdown” was “ending in jail” for Davis as she was “led away, cheers and boos from the crowd.” Later in his story, Perez became the only network reporter to carry soundbites from 2016 GOP presidential candidates Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee, observing that “[t]he flashpoint issue” is “reverberating on the campaign trail.”
I would love to spout: "LIKE H3LL...NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN"
But, sadly, I am seeing more and more so-called conservatives caving on this issue.
I'm even, scandalously, seeing some FReepers giving up and either claiming that following man's law is more important than following God's law...or saying that it doesn't matter. And without sniffing ozone as a result.
We are descending to Gomorrah. How long will it be before brimstone follows?
This is all unnecessary. There are tons of folks who would do this marriage. The gay pair just need to go to the next clerk.
Isn’t the remedy to just tell the gays to drive to the next clerk/ the next bakery shop/ the next wedding chapel?
Why is the remedy not that?
The Supreme Court's ruling was clearly unconstitutional. The members voting for same sex marriage do not know the difference between men and women, and created their interpretation of the Constitution to somehow support something that violates natural law.
I do not know how this abominable ruling can stand. It was clearly wrong.
We shall see how it plays out because the Judge thinks that he can change her mind by giving her a "time out" and somehow accept that men can "marry" men and women can "marry" women. It does not compute; it will never compute!
No, Pelley. This isn’t going to go away. It’s not gone away for centuries so what makes you think the world is going to win this time?
The Obsolete man
The excuse was obsolescence. The truth was that it was about his belief.
The false gods on the Supreme Court weren’t following man’s law or legal precedence when they ushered in their edict this summer. There is no law anymore, only tyranny.
Because it’s not just an accident that these queers are just “happening” to stumble into places where they have to deal with Bible-believing Christians who don’t leave their Christian beliefs at home and in their churches on Sunday, they live them 7 days a week, wherever they are. They are deliberately looking for Christians so they can have a showdown, because they know the time is right for them to have it, now-the full force of government and the judiciary is now on their side and against Christians, except the “Sunday morning” type of Christian, and they knew they’d never have a problem with that type anyway. They are going to show Christians who’s running this country now, and Christians are either going to stand by their principles, or show that they were lukewarm anyway, and we know what Jesus said He’d do with lukewarm Christians.
Or it could be the first hint of real battle to come!
Repent, America...God's finger is nearing the 'RESET' button.
I can envision a scenario whereby Iran sends an ICBM into a red city/red state, kills hundreds of thousands of conservatives and at the same time provides pretense for martial law and indefinite reign of the current tyrant in the WH as part of that “RESET”.
If a Muslim was working in a grocery store and refused to sell bacon, and was discharged, would we declare that her 1st Amendment rights were being violated?
I know Levin's position: activist judge...judiciary not the final word...
The law is wrong. Is this a case where we should follow King's guidance regarding unlawful laws?
You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, it is rather strange and paradoxical to find us consciously breaking laws. One may well ask, "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "An unjust law is no law at all." (Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
Seriously, please help me see the difference.
There are not many ‘red cities’. Most of the cities are all ‘deep blue’
We are truly DOOMED.
CBS’s Pelley: Clerk Going to Jail Possibly ‘the Last Front in a Losing Battle To Retain Southern Democrats...
With God; all things are possible.
Bingo
Because the mindset of the left is totalitarian.
A couple of clarifying questions:
If the grocery store made a decision to sell pork products at some point after the Muslim started working there, then, perhaps, there would be a point. However, if the Muslim accepted employment there knowing full well that selling pork products was an expectation, then I'd tell the Muslim to pound sand.
Also, I can think of two liquor stores in my local community that are owned and operated by Muslims...as well as a well-known local pizza chain (and they sell pizzas with pork like sausage and pepperoni). So I think the argument is specious. But I'll play along...
And, let us not forget this example: Abercrombie & Fitch pays out $71,000 to settle lawsuits over hijabs
Now Kim Davis is an elected official, not an employee. The Obergefell decision was published after she was elected to office. Leaving aside the moral and natural law issues, once she is up for re-election, if she takes the position during the campaign that she will not issue marriage licenses to sodomites, then so be it. If she does like the Virginia Attorney General and says one thing during the campaign and does a 180° shift as soon as she's sworn in, then that's a different situation altogether.
History????
We have become what we are because the People do not choose to arise and insist on the Constitution being followed. History is on the side of "it going away". Many speak out in loud voices and take zero action - the evil side laughs all the way to despotism...."Sticks and stones....but words can never...."
...”No, Pelley. This isn’t going to go away. It’s not gone away for centuries so what makes you think the world is going to win this time?”...
Compliance will all depend on how rapidly the tyranny progresses. We are just about to find out who the true Christians are. They will be those who understand that the 10 Commandments are not just an insignificant list of rules put into place to deny us a good time. They were given to us by our Creator to keep this world from self-distructing because of the human weakness of lust, envy, jealousy, covetousness and lying. Opposition to this may be silenced through tyranny but it will not go away because true Christians will stand. It is the legacy passed to us by that man who died on that cross more than 2000 years ago. What God calls sin is the addiction passed from Adam and Eve when they sampled the knowledge of evil in that garden which was played out fairly quickly in their own family when Cain slew Able. That event shows us the consequences of sin, then and now. We all sin but most of us do not condone the government enforcement of it. Engaging a now Godless culture without losing the gospel is now the task of every church body. I surely would not want to be one of those Supreme Court Justices who voted against God’s idea of the family when the time comes to meet the author of that. One thing is for sure..Earthly power corrupts and always has.
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