Posted on 09/04/2015 8:02:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For those of you who want to know how each GOP Presidential candidate publicly stands on the Kim Davis/Gay Marriage issue, here is a guide.
BOBBY JINDAL
Bobby Jindal Defends Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis
QUOTE: "In America, You should be able to keep your job and follow your conscience."
MIKE HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee offers support to Kentucky clerk who refuses to issue gay marriage licenses
TED CRUZ
Ted Cruz: 'I Stand With Kim Davis'
JEB BUSH "[Davis] is sworn to uphold the law and it seems to me there ought to be common ground, there ought to be big enough space for her to act on her conscience and for, now that the law is the law of the land, for a gay couple to be married in whatever jurisdiction that is,
CARLY FIORINA
Kim Davis needs to execute the government's will" if she stays in her post
RAND PAUL
Rand Paul’s ‘solution’ to Kim Davis problem: ‘Why not just privatize marriage?’
RICK SANTORUM
Rick Santorum: What Kim Davis did is HEROIC and putting her in jail is RIDICULOUS
SCOTT WALKER
Scott Walker defends KY Clerk Kim Davis
QUOTE: " “Not only do I believe that the states have the right to define marriage and I disagree with the court ruling. But I believe that the next president, the most important thing I can do as president is uphold the constitution over all and part of the constitution is the freedom of religion not the freedom from religion but the freedom of religion…. We do that in our state. We have it very clearly defined in our state’s constitution . It has worked just fine in the past.”
MARCO RUBIO
Marco Rubio Says Government Should Respect Kim Davis’s Beliefs
QUOTE: “We should seek a balance between government’s responsibility to abide by the laws of our republic and allowing people to stand by their religious convictions,”
DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump on Kim Davis case: ‘The Supreme Court has ruled’
QUOTE: “Well look — the decision came down from the Supreme Court … so I’m a believer in both sides of the picture,” Mr. Trump said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I would say the simple answer is let her clerks do it. Now, from what I understand, she’s not letting her clerks do it, either.”
JOHN KASICH
"We'll honor what the Supreme Court does," he said. "It's the law of the land. It's the way that America functions."
CHRIS CHRISTIE
Christie acknowledged that “someone who works in the government has a bit of a different obligation than someone who’s in the private sector or obviously working for educational institutions that’s religiously based or others,” but opined that “we have to protect religious liberty and people’s ability to be able to practice their religion freely and openly, and of course we have to enforce the law too.”
LINDSAY GRAHAM
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Graham said that as a public official Davis must “comply with the law or resign.” “The rule of law is the rule of law,” he argued, “That’s what we are. We are a rule of law nation, and I appreciate her conviction. I support traditional marriage, but she’s accepted a job where she has to apply the law to everyone. And that’s her choice.”
HILLARY CLINTON
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law—end of story.
BEN CARSON
There seems to be nothing coming from Ben Carson on this issue... if you find anything, kindly post it on this thread.
Nope....I mean across the nation. Why do we need a license to get married in the first place?? You go to a minister or a JP...and just do it.
This issue its' Huckabee battling in the trenches with Cruz just issuing talking points.
RE: Why do we need a license to get married in the first place?? You go to a minister or a JP...and just do it.
OK, let’s say we got the government out of the marriage business... what about our tax laws?
Our tax laws are so complicated but one of the things it recognizes is MARRIAGE.
If marriages are done by a minister, and not by government, that STILL would require government approval to recognize your “union” as a marriage.
And here’s the other thing -— if you are a Muslim, you can have more than one wife. So, a Muslim marries 4 women in his mosque, what will our tax law recognize?
She was elected by the people in her town. She wasn’t elected by an outlaw judge.
She is following the law, the constitution, and natural law. The judge is pulling rulings out of his hat. He should be removed from office.
He did not need to be exposed....because he has had those views all along.
Politically speaking, trump is a classical liberal. He has a strong law and order stance, and his opinion is limited to that.
It takes a lot of moral soul searching to determine that not all laws should be honored. he either does not have that ability, or does not want to engage in it.
It’s a small handful of activists traveling around, demanding marriage licenses repeatedly in different states and counties.
The goal is to harass Christians, not get married.
These gay “couples” are being sent to conservative areas by the Human Rights Commission to ask for marriage licenses. They might have a dozen incompleted forms in their back pockets.
They’ll keep on asking until they’re refused, then it’s tango time. Call in the media and turn on the tears. Just like they do with the wedding cakes, flowers, and photos.
Remember, the license doesn’t become public record until after an actual wedding takes place, is signed by a preacher or officiant, and is returned and filed in the courthouse.
The gay agenda has styled itself a new “civil rights” movement and they’re borrowing the practices of the Freedom Riders.
This is a good litmus test of who will stand with us and who won’t. Right now its Jindal, Huck, Cruz, Santorum, and Walker.
Some of these may have eliminated themselves on some other issue, but this is the lineup on this issue. I think this is important enough that if you aren’t on this list, you are not worthy of support.
RE: She was elected by the people in her town. She wasn’t elected by an outlaw judge.
PRECISELY. Therefore, SHE CANNOT BE FIRED.
The only way she can be “fired” ( note the quotes ) is to either impeach her or be recalled in an election.
The group who support judicial tyranny are manifestly unfit to choose federal judges.
Thank you. Needs to be repeated.
Hey!!!
I’m trying to eat lunch here!
Bkmk
And this “law of the land” was made by what legislature?
What was your problem with Walker’s response cited in the article?
“OK, let’s say we got the government out of the marriage business... what about our tax laws?
Our tax laws are so complicated but one of the things it recognizes is MARRIAGE.”
First,simplify our taxes code. Preaching to the choir.
I will ask a question with a question. Because i am not a tax expert. If taxes were simplified. If they flattened and fairer would there be a need for the tax code to recognise marriage?
Otherwise, if the tax law is not simplified i suspect queer and otherwise freak couples, 3-5 in a marriage?, will adopt as many children as possible for the tax break.
You can not stop them or else it is descrimination,right?
The writer of this headline has no notion at all of how to write plurals. I suppose that is par for the course for for public school education in the last half century.
I gave him a D+. He did not mention the clerk nor did he directly support her civil disobedience to an unjust and immoral ruling by a court that has no authorization to define marriage. It did not look to me like he was taking a stand just mouthing nice sounding non committal words.
Elected officials can resign.
The only reason I haven’t crossed Gilmore off my list is because I don’t know anything about him, other than that he was governor of Virginia. He’s a blank slate to me. If he were to walk up to me on the street and talk to me, I wouldn’t recognize him.
RE: Elected officials can resign.
Or they can uphold Kentucky’s law, which prohibits same-sex marriage.
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