Posted on 09/04/2015 9:53:45 AM PDT by wagglebee
ROWAN COUNTY, KY, September 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will hold a rally to protest the arrest and imprisonment of a Christian county clerk who refused to issue gay "marriage" licenses to homosexuals, saying the arrest shows that Christian persecution has come to America.
The rally, which he dubbed #ImWithKim, will be held in Kentucky on Tuesday, his campaign announced today. Further details will be forthcoming, as the event is still being planned.
"Having Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country," Gov. Huckabee said following the arrest for contempt of court, which took place Thursday afternoon.
"This is a reckless, appalling, out-of-control decision that undermines the Constitution of the United States and our fundamental right to religious liberty," he said.
"Who will be next? Pastors? Photographers? Caterers? Florists?" he asked.
His rally is similar to the "Rally for Religious Liberty" held in Iowa by Huckabee's 2016 Republican presidential rival, Sen. Ted Cruz. The Texan senator invited Dick and Betty Odgaard, Barronelle Stutzman, Kelvin Cochran, Aaron and Melissa Klein, Philip Monk, and Blaine Adamson to join him in Des Moines - along with Nagmeh Abedini, the wife of Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is being held in prison in Iran.
Sen. Cruz also expressed his support for Davis. "Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office," he said. "This is wrong. This is not America."
"I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally."
Religious liberty has been a longstanding concern of both Cruz and Huckabee, who draw largely from the same constituency of evangelical and conservative Christian GOP primary voters.
People who don't realize how important these events are to all of is simply don't understand what has transpire here.
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BUMP!!
You are 100% correct.
Huckabee gains and respect for this. Will people show up? Reckon how many Christians are withing an hour or two drive?
Could a Christian 7th Day Adventist Country Clerk demand the Clerk’s Office be closed from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday?
It would be her religious beliefs.
Could a Christian 7th Day Adventist Country Clerk demand the Clerk’s Office be closed from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday?
It would be her religious beliefs.
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Depending on what time sundown occurs, most clerks offices already are closed during those hours.
There are laws about accommodating reasonable religious requests, so if an office where open the clerk could certainly ask not to work those hours. Just as in this case, she is asking to not sign the licenses, a reasonable accommodation.
Nice strawman though.
Perhaps more closely related. Could a clerk of the Catholic faith choose to not provide a license to someone who has been divorced, as that would be promoting adultery?
“What a world, where Hillary Clinton isn’t in jail but Kim Davis is,” Huckabee said after the clerk was taken into federal custody on Sept. 3.
I’m not a fan of Huckabee for POTUS, but I have to give him many kudos for this!
There are errors a state can tolerate without condoning.
Since this particular error of Sodomism involves the wholesale rejection of Natural Law (and Bunning even said so), it cannot be tolerated. To admit it, is to destroy Law itself.
Kim Davis has exercised more courage of her convictions than 95% or more of the pastors in America. Most pastors haven’t even mentioned the issues of gay marriage, homosexuality or abortion from their pulpits in months if ever. Many of those that do will not take a visible and verbal stand outside the walls of their church. So Mike Huckabee will and good for him.
If the pastors in the pulpits of the churches in the colonies had behaved like the pastors of today, we would still be beholden to the throne of the King/Queen of England. They preached revolution from their pulpits along with the gospel.
So you are saying the state can tolerate adultery and the Catholic clerk should be compelled to issue a license to a divorced person even though it goes against their faith?
I saw an interview with him yesterday on this topic. He was quite good!
This is just the beginning of the neutering of religious authority. God will not be mocked. He literally wiped out people groups doing far less as is recorded in the Bible.
Our usefulness as a nation in spreading the gospel abroad and on our own soil is coming to a close I am afraid. Christians who don’t take a stand will be “spewed out” just like the lukewarm church.
THERE ARE NO FENCE SITTERS IN HEAVEN.
A couple million or more within a 2 hour drive.
It covers Cincinnati, Newport, Lexington, Maysville, Ashland, Portsmouth, Huntington, etc
Great comment resonates with the minds of the Founding Fathers.
Not a straw man at all.
County Clerks here are open Saturdays to accommodate people who cannot get there M-F.
What about a Jew who wanted the office closed on the High Holy Days, a Muslim who wanted it closed every Friday, me who would it closed on the first day of every Hunting and Fishing Season?
Someone also asked about a devout Catholic refusing to issue marriage licenses to those previously married whose previous marriage was not annulled?
The word “peasonable” in a contract is a word that makes many lawyers rich. Religion and law mix very poorly.
That’s not the moral equivalency here. She is refusing to put her name to something she believes is a sinful act.
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