Conservatives, Be Careful What You Wish For In the “Kim Davis” Case

Townhall ^ | 09/09/2015 | Bob Barr

[Theo]

Kim Davis was following the LAW. She refused to obey a judge’s request, and instead followed the LAW on the books. To my knowledge the LAW has not been revoked.

[2banana]

Imagine waking in world where unelected liberal five supreme court justices don’t just get to “make up” the most profound and controversial “laws”

[Jim Robinson]

Baloney. Religious freedom and the right to keep and bear arms are the first two unalienable rights listed on the Bill of Rights!

Homo marriage is bullshit!! Literally.

You want a civil war, bring it on!!

[dware]

Davis took an oath to uphold the law

And there is the gist...please, dear writer, tell me, which law did Davis break?

[JohnKinAK]

I’m sure German bureaucrats made this same arguments circa 1937.

[Fido969]

Imagine waking up to the news that a Quaker county sheriff is denying concealed carry permits to citizens because of his religious objection to violence;

"Wake up to"? This kind of stuff is already happening, and has been happening for year.

[Capt. Tom]

or, a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse to issue driver’s licenses to women out of a religious objection to women behind the wheel.

A stronger Muslim case would be to refuse to issue liquor licenses. -Tom

[Obadiah]

<...a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse to issue driver’s licenses to women out of a religious objection to women behind the wheel.

Completely specious argument. The Supreme Court just didn't make up some dictum regarding women drivers within the last 90 days. If some Muslim got hired knowing he had a problem issuing women driver's licenses then that is on the hiring agency.

On the other hand, about women drivers...

[ken5050]

Let me guess..Barr is about to run for something in 2016...president, congress..dogcatcher??

[cripplecreek]

Imagine waking up to the news that a Quaker county sheriff is denying concealed carry permits to citizens because of his religious objection to violence; or, a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse to issue driver’s licenses to women out of a religious objection to women behind the wheel. These are among the realities that await should we make Kim Davis, the embattled County Clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky, an archetype for “religious freedom” in America.

Hyperbole. There are ways around these religious objections even in the cases where it is an actual law.

[Obadiah]

...a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse to issue driver’s licenses to women out of a religious objection to women behind the wheel.

Completely specious argument. The Supreme Court just didn't make up some dictum regarding women drivers within the last 90 days. If some Muslim got hired knowing he had a problem issuing women driver's licenses then that is on the hiring agency.

On the other hand, about women drivers...

[Jewbacca]

I’ve thought about this a bit and Davis seems to be in between a rock and a hard place, regardless of her religious beliefs.

It is my understanding that it is a felony in TN to issue a same-sex marriage license. So essentially, the federal judge is demanding she commit a felony.

Now, the law itself may not pass muster under what passes for Supreme Court jurisprudence, but that’s not her call.

The correct defendant appears to be the State of TN, whose legislature should be ordered to make a law that complies with the SC decision, not some lowly clerk.

Not a lawyer here, just an rocket scientist.

[SeeSharp]

No wonder we lost the impeachment case against Bill Clinton. Was Bob Barr ever sane?

[SoFloFreeper]

Bob Barr can shove it.

There were OTHER WAYS for the homosexuals who demanded a piece of paper to get it...apparently a judge offered to issue the sheet they wanted. The two men refused. Instead, it seems they wanted to FORCE Kim Davis to do something against her religion.

Bob Barr doesn’t like to think very much, or investigate things, does he?

Why did Townhall print this screed?

[Prov1322]

Go away, Bob. You understand nothing of this issue.

Thankful that our congressional district rejected you last year!

[Fester Chugabrew]

This is not a question of whether or not we agree with that Supreme Court ruling.

Actually it is, Bob. No court clerk is obligated to follow what is in fact NOT legally legislated. We do not recognize homosexual "marriages" in the same way we do not recognize the courts as legislative bodies.

[conejo99]

We might end up in a society where it wasn’t practical to require government approval and licenses for actions.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Barr missed it big time. This is not about religious convictions. It is about unelected officials acting in a lawless manner and overturning centuries of common law and democratically established laws. To simply frame this as a religious liberty issue is misleading.

And yes it is about double standards, Bob rightfully uses Obamah as an example of disregarding the law but he uses it as proof that the rest of need to conform to any lawless decree.

Hey BOB, when the courts decree that anti-gay sermons are not protected speech will submit to pastors being barred from getting a license? Wouldn’t want to break the law.

[eXe]

And just think, all of this could have been avoided if a few judges did not deem gay “marriage” to be a right. Yawn.

And I cant tell you how many stories I have read in the last year of how many sheriffs are refusing it issue CCW in shall issue areas. No outrage over that in the media.