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Rights Collide as Town Clerk Sidesteps Role in Gay Marriages
NY Slimes ^
| 9/27/11
| THOMAS KAPLAN
Posted on 09/28/2011 2:45:23 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Go ahead and sign off—it’s like carrying Monopoly money in your wallet anyway—it just ain’t real.
The DOMA is still the law of the land and when a conservative is in the WH,the DOJ will do it’s duty and uphold it—so the homosexuals are just playing house.
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posted on
09/28/2011 2:52:35 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("Yer it!")
To: markomalley
queers bullying for more lawsuits
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:00:47 AM PDT
by
SF_Redux
(Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
To: Happy Rain
Not to mention, that when you’re working for a secular organization like the government, you are required to fulfill your secular duties, like signing whatever documentations you don’t care to sign.
If not, you have every right to live as you wish, elsewhere.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:01:53 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Happy Rain
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:06:43 AM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
To: Jonty30
Clever way to get rid of the observant Christians in government,isn’t it?
Their plan all along.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:07:22 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("Yer it!")
To: markomalley
I’m not in favor of gay marriage either, but if gay marriage is legal, and her duty is to sign this document, then she should either sign it, or resign.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:08:41 AM PDT
by
csense
To: csense
Im not in favor of gay marriage either, but if gay marriage is legal, and her duty is to sign this document, then she should either sign it, or resign. Or stand up for what she believes and make them fire her.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:12:47 AM PDT
by
DouglasKC
To: csense
This is a contrived lawsuit: the clerk didn’t refuse , the couple ‘didn’t want to wait’. Therefore , there was a legal accomodation to protect the rights of the gay couple , as well as the clerk.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:13:21 AM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(Move Along ,... Nothing to see here ...)
To: markomalley
![alt](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/28/nyregion/yjpclerk2/yjpclerk2-popup.jpg)
Deirdre DiBiaggio, left, and Katie Carmichael argue that state law requires all clerks to give marriage licenses to gay couples.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:14:05 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(nzt - works better if you're already smart)
To: Happy Rain
Exactly so !! ~Clever way to get rid of the observant Christians in government,isnt it?
Their plan all along.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:15:26 AM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(Move Along ,... Nothing to see here ...)
To: DouglasKC
Or stand up for what she believes and make them fire her. I suppose she could, and I suppose they will.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:19:14 AM PDT
by
csense
To: csense
It's like a Christian doctor in a military hospital if abortions are suddenly allowed there. If he won't murder babies he should resign.
The anti-Christian Leftist agenda at work.
You have a right to practice your faith without restriction,the constitution guarantees that—but if you do it where we don't want you to you don't get arrested,just fired.
Validate my homosexual travesty or resign—never mind you held this job for decades before the Left installed this abomination of a law.
LEAVE Christian, we have atheists to replace you!
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:19:16 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("Yer it!")
To: Happy Rain
Of course. It’s all about trying to shape society they way they want without regard for the consequences of doing so.
That’s also the Dems allowed gays to openly serve in the military, to destroy the tendency for the military to vote Republican as much as possible. Who cares about military readiness.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:25:40 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: markomalley
Sign it, stamp it, say "next" and move on.
Do not give them another excuse to draw attention to their perversion.
Treat them just like any other government form, that will piss them off more than anything.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:32:34 AM PDT
by
Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
To: markomalley; All
It’s not up to a civil servant to determine which laws she will follow, repulsive as the associated action’s request may be. I believe the saying is “I don’t pay you to think.” If conscience dictates she can’t perform a duty, she should resign.
This situation is quite different than a priest refusing to give the sacrament or a doctor in a Catholic or other religious hospital refusing to commit an abortion. Throughout history individuals have payed far greater prices for maintaining their convictions.
A solution might, if this were an elected position, for her to resign and then run again with her beliefs in full view. If she were to be re-elected with support of the population, she would be able to claim she represents the will of the voters.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:42:04 AM PDT
by
j.argese
(You may think you've won the day, in the end you will surely lose the important race.)
To: markomalley
Would be helpful if the story told the actual amount of time that the signature would be delayed waiting for an appointment with the deputy clerk.
I expect the time was minimal, hence it was purposel;y omitted by the Times.
To: dennisw
The New York Times has printed pictures of homosexual couples on their weddings and announcements page for years now. What always strikes me is how frequently these couples, whether male or female, resemble each other.
Didn't Narcissus fall in love with his own reflection in the water?
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:44:31 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
This is a contrived lawsuit: the clerk didnt refuse , the couple didnt want to wait. Therefore , there was a legal accomodation to protect the rights of the gay couple , as well as the clerk. Well, she did refuse, and there's no getting around that. Second, I'm not sure how this protects the rights of the gay couple. If another coupple, heterosexual, were to walk in and had the document signed, while the gay couple was waiting, would you consider that equal treatment under the law.
That said, How far does ths priciple extend. If signing or stamping the document is equivalent to moral acceptance, then what about the office itself. How does she morally distance herself from that.
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posted on
09/28/2011 3:52:31 AM PDT
by
csense
To: markomalley
An honest and educated person knows ....
- "Natural Born Citizen" means born to parents who are citizens, in the country.
- "Marriage" means a legal joining of a man and a woman.
- "Enumerated and Limited Powers" are just that.
- "Gay" is not happy at all. When used in the co-opted propaganda sense of the word, it is wrong, and indeed, a most unhappy human condition.
- Adultery and bastardy are indeed REAL crimes, per the fundamental laws of Nature and Nature's G-d. Removing them from the legal code is folly, and removing those crimes hem from common social disdain has been a disaster with tens of millions of innocent harmed victims and climbing.
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posted on
09/28/2011 4:08:07 AM PDT
by
bvw
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