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.
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My emoticon is batting its eyes at you.
Good question. I guess I need to read more Mary Ann Glendon before I can answer it adequately. Let me just say that married people are truly married even without the state's recognition or authorization, and unmarriage-able people cannot be married even with it.
The role of the state, when it exists at all, is to acknowledge, not to create or authorize, a marriage. With the acknowledgement may come some guarantee of the rights of both parties, and of the children produced or adopted into the family predicated by this marriage. The state's role is basically to vindicate justice to the weaker parties.
"Does A government have any authority to refuse such a license to a couple who is perfectly capable of being married?"
I don't think so. Any government has to operate on the principle of "equal justice under law" --- or so it seems to me.
I'm assume when you say "perfectly capable of being married," you mean perfectly capable of the Marriage Act (intercourse in the procreative form), capable of true mature consent (not underage, drunk, crazy, mentally incapacitated, acting under coercion/duress, threat or fraud) and not already married to somebody else, and not related within prohibited degrees of consanguinity.
In other words, they must be at once capable, willing and eligible.
What do you think?
Perhaps one day before they leave this world they'll realize what they have done to themselves, to their families and to their country ... but perhaps not.
I don’t follow this story because it is a distracting narrative.
Question: Why wasn’t she fired? Is it an elected position?
Awesome!
It would be a fitting turn of justic if one day black robed jackboots like the judge AND THE BIGGEST CONSTITUTIONAL OFFENDER; B. HUSSEIN OBAMA were escorted out of a courtroom in shackles on THEIR way to jail.
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Better.
You could be right but the “grandfathering” regarding a law is nothing new - a person who commits a crime cannot be charged with a law passed at a later date - the police and judicial branch must deal with the “crime” with the laws in place at that time - granted it’s a fine line and for me to make a fully informed decision I would have to know EXACTLY what the “oath of office” was that she took!!! - a Judge(if any oath) and a police officers oath is to uphold and enforce the laws of the land - - “”””I WILL - TO THE BEST OF MY SKILL AND KNOWLEDGE - DISCHARGE ALL THE DUTIES THEREOF - FAITHFULLY - ACCORDING TO LAW. SO HELP ME GOD.””””
I blame him. He is no better than Nazi judges who "were only following the law" as they sent Jews to their deaths.
Look at this quote by the dishonorable judge....
Federal Judge Says He’s Above Natural Law as He Tosses Clerk Kim Davis in Jail [terrifying quote]
PJ Media ^ | 9/3/15 | Scott Ott
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2015 7:41:30 PM by markomalley
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She’s an elected official, and can’t be fired except by voters in her county, so a federal judge had her thrown in jail today. I expected as much. Any true civil-disobedience act must come with the willingness to bear the legal consequences of your extra-legal behavior. Davis politely thanked the judge before being carted off to the clink.
If it were me, I also would have submitted to the governing authority, but not without a resounding “SAY WHAT, YOUR HONOR?!” after he said this…
more....“The idea of natural law superceding [sic] this court’s authority would be a dangerous precedent indeed,” U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning told Rowan County clerk Kim Davis.
Free Republic will continue the fight for Liberty and against godless socialism and fascist judges!
September 3, 2015 | Jim Robinson
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:39:43 PM by Jim Robinson
I stand with Kim Davis! I will not comply!
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Well it is not Jim who was MLB and HOF
Good grief....the blow has already happened!! We have GAY MARRIAGE!! And 56 MILLION DEAD BABIES KILLED BY THEIR MOTHERS!!
Answer from God: Because you have let Me and My SON be kicked out of America, and MOTHERS have KILLED 56 MILLION of their OWN MOTHERS!!
The big government liberal thugs shackled a gentle 49 year old woman just as part of the punishment. They are as stupid as the big government republican thugs who tried to undermine Trump by manipulating the election campaign. Big government liberals of all parties disgust me.
Why do they always have to mention her divorces?
That's easy...
They are trying to dismiss her as a hypocrite.
Standard liberal tactics for damaging any Christian's reputation.
Thank you.
Accept the tyranny or fight it. I guess you accept it.
She is the elite ruling class on the Dem side. We also have an elite ruling class on the Republican side. Arrogant a. Holes
Article 6 Constitution. No religious test allowed to serve in public office...
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