Posted on 09/04/2015 3:26:40 AM PDT by markomalley
With shackles around her ankles and waist, this is the moment the defiant Kentucky clerk who is refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses was led away from federal court - and taken to jail.
Kim Davis, 49, was told by U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Thursday that she would stay behind bars until she complied with his order to resume issuing the licenses to gay couples.
Donning a blue top and striped skirt, Davis, a thrice-divorced Apostolic Christian who works at Rowan County Courthouse, said 'thank you' before being led from the courtroom by a marshal.
She later insisted that she would not accept a compromise that would allow her out of jail. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had proposed to the court that Davis be freed if she promised not to interfere with her deputies. But Davis refused - noting her name would still be on the licenses.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Legal.
Do you support laws regarding consanguineous marriage?
Do you support laws regarding child marriage?
This is nonsense. In the first place, this law itself is unlawful. The U.S. Constitution says that marriage in in the domain of "the several states," not of the Federal government. The U.S. Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to compel the deconstruction of natural marriage in the 50 states.
The real shame is that the whole burden of upholding *Kentucky* law is falling on the shoulders of this lowly, solitary County Clerk, and not the Governor of KY. Governor Steve Beshear ought to have instructed every County Clerk in the state, that their Oath is to uphold *Kentucky* law. Beshear failed to do this, and ought to be impeached.
Secondly, Mr. White House Press Secretary, why don't you look into the Sanctuary Cities perps, hmmm? ... and keep your nose out of this one.
I don’t support any laws that purport to regulate the institution of marriage. Marriage is a religious sacrament, from my perspective.
So you accept “marriage” between a 50 year old male and 72 13 year olds.
Thanks for clearing that up.
That’s the law -— KY definition of marriage —— and it is both admirable and enforceable. That’s the law Kim Davis took an oath to uphold.
We disagree, FRiend.
SCOTUS set up a trap where a non-enumerated “right” specifically contradicts an enumerated right. When Kim Davis asserts her enumerated right, if she can be compelled to resign or violate her asserted right, then there is no right to freedom of exercise of religion.
The existing laws in KY do not support issuance of homosexual “marriage” licenses. Under the SCOTUS ruling, they are deemed unconstitutional, and therefore void. There is no authority for KY to issue marriage licenses of any kind in this situation.
But beyond this, I can’t help but see that the full weight of government vengeance is not aimed squarely at anyone who holds to a christian orthodoxy.
SCOTUS, through the person of Bunning, has imprisoned a woman for exercising a right enumerated in the first amendment. And they call this “the rule of law”.
Here's a better, more relevant question:
If your state legislature passed a law recognizing a "marriage" between a 50 year-old man and 72 thirteen year-olds, would YOU accept it?
Did it. Thank you.
You previously said “I don’t support any laws that purport to regulate the institution of marriage.”
Which is it, do you or do you not support laws regulating marriage?
I don't believe for one moment that Kim Davis has done anything wrong here. And I have said on any number of occasions that if I were in Judge Bunning's shoes I would have thrown the case out of Federal court on the grounds that it is a Kentucky matter, not a Federal matter.
This is nonsense. In the first place, this law itself is unlawful. The U.S. Constitution says that marriage in in the domain of "the several states," not of the Federal government. The U.S. Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to coerce the deconstruction of natural marriage in the 50 states.
To blame? Well, for starters, I BLAME THE GOVERNOR. The real shame is that the whole burden of upholding *Kentucky* law is falling on the shoulders of this County Clerk, and not the Governor of KY. Governor Steve Beshear ought to have instructed every County Clerk in the state, that their Oath is to uphold Kentucky law. Beshear failed to do this, and ought to be impeached.
If there are criminal statutes related to statutory rape, then that's a whole different story.
> If some dude wants to claim that he’s married to 72 teenagers, and there are 72 teenagers our there who agree with him, then who gives a sh!t?
Got it. Thanks for clarifying your position.
If she were to resign, she would be saying that the new USCC judge-made "law" is right and that she regretfully cannot uphold it. And that's wrong. She is upholding her election. She is upholding her Oath. She is upholding the law.
Marriage precedes the very existence of the state, and is definable even lacking supernatural revelation. The foundational document of our Republic, the Declaration, wisely sources its authority on both God and Nature: "... and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."
Because God wrote His laws into our Nature, i.e. the simple fact that our species manifests binary sexual differentiation, and our reason tells us what this is for.
I’m stealing your tagline.
Damn but you’re good. I think I love you.
Does A government have any authority to refuse such a license to a couple who is perfectly capable of being married?
The judge needs to turn from his sin in penitential tears.
You need to read more, there is an applicable Kentucky law, passed in 1998.
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