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Same-Sex Marriage Fight Turns to Clerks Who Refuse Licenses
ABC News ^ | June 30, 2015 | By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM

Posted on 06/30/2015 2:56:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

MOREHEAD, Ky. - Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis shut her blinds at work Tuesday to block the view of rainbow-clad protesters outside. They carried flowers and flags and signs saying "you don't own marriage." They chanted "do your job."

Moments later, she told a lesbian couple who walked in asking for a license to try another county.

Davis is among a handful of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Supreme Court and refusing to issue a license to anyone, gay or straight.

"It's a deep-rooted conviction; my conscience won't allow me to do that," Davis told The Associated Press. "It goes against everything I hold dear, everything sacred in my life."

Some judges and clerks in Alabama and Texas have done the same, ordering their offices in the name of religious liberty and free speech to issue no marriage licenses at all.

Legal experts are dubious that religious freedom arguments will protect public officials who not only refuse to participate due to their own beliefs, but also decline to make accommodations so that others who don't object can serve the public instead.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; scotus
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To: DiogenesLamp

“They will keep coming until they win or until you kill them.”.............

It’s nice to have a choice, “lemme see, which will it be?”


21 posted on 06/30/2015 3:29:42 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Las Vegas Ron

LEDs produce precise directional light.


22 posted on 06/30/2015 3:33:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can the clerks issue the licenses without their signatures, like when a governor lets a law pass without his signature?


23 posted on 06/30/2015 3:34:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some madness cooked up just a few years ago and imposed on the country only yesterday is now “settled law,” a bedrock principle of American life. The right to life, in contrast, is entirely optional.


24 posted on 06/30/2015 3:38:26 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: DiogenesLamp

I go with option B, Diogenes


25 posted on 06/30/2015 3:53:04 PM PDT by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: Vigilanteman

We have a lawless Supreme Court. Therefore, any ruling cannot be lawful. Therefore, I will disobey.


26 posted on 06/30/2015 3:55:11 PM PDT by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: MamaB

None of these folks should resign. They should wait until they are forcibly removed from office and then sue for wrongful termination.


27 posted on 06/30/2015 3:55:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Las Vegas Ron

The white house was lit up very quick after the decision, Maybe they had the bulbs already and the lights were just already set in place


28 posted on 06/30/2015 4:06:24 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Walrus

If the Feds and this white house can’t abide by their own laws, so why should the states and us?


29 posted on 06/30/2015 4:07:11 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: All

The problem is this nation is far away from the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. Now we’re no longer a Christian nation. So, issue the license. In God’s eyes they’re not married anyway. And this nation will pay for it’s sins.


30 posted on 06/30/2015 4:25:05 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'll vote for a democrat before I'll vote for a rino.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
LEDs produce precise directional light.

Can they really keep a sharp line when projected on a building though?

31 posted on 06/30/2015 4:29:28 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Yep.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 4:31:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is it. They are making people choose between their faith and their job.
Note: this choice will not be demanded of the people who throw gays off tall buildings.


33 posted on 06/30/2015 4:32:07 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: kaehurowing

None of these folks should resign. They should wait until they are forcibly removed from office and then sue for wrongful termination.


Spot on !!!!

If they resign we lose.

We have given up way to much ground within these bureaucracies over the years and have lost allies within the system to the radicals.

Years ago while I complained to a liberal friend about the indoctrination in public schools, she said “Well, there’s nothing keeping conservatives from becoming teachers is there?”


34 posted on 06/30/2015 4:38:03 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell me that I’m not really seeing a rainbow-colored white house, am I? If that is not a battle cry, I don’t know what is.


35 posted on 06/30/2015 4:47:23 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure you’re not thinking laser vs led?


36 posted on 06/30/2015 5:12:36 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: VerySadAmerican

What do you mean?, we will. We are already paying for our sins it looks like.Anyone ever read the Homosexual Manifesto?...and what they intend?

This homosexual marriage is just part of it. Same as the queering of the military, indoctrinating the children through the schools, recreational organizations, and anywhere where there is a chance for them to recruit. We see from this manifesto how the intentional over-turning of a business owner’s power to conduct his/her own business, and the usurping of God’s Laws are taking place before us, and in direct alignment wit their manifesto. And they intend to subjugate ALL of society with this lunacy “without consequence” to them, says the Devil and his minions.

The only way that “I” personally can describe this manifesto after reading it, is that it came straight from the pits of Hell. It contains every rancid, putrid, vile, and detestable thing known to the “functional” man, and designed to end civilization. Not equalize it. lol. It makes you wonder HOW this would have gotten into the CRUSC. Is it there because no one at the CRUSC READ IT?, like the healthcare act and just filed it in with the rest of the “records”? Or??? Sorry for my post being so long, but you have just got to read this...if you haven’t already.

THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO
from the ‘History’ topic
Added: 04-Jun-2007
Published: N/A

Source: The Congressional Record of the United States Cong
Author: Michael Swift

Description:
The true attitude and motive of “gay” activists is revealed in this supposed satire by a leader of the homosexual movement.

THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO
By Michael Swift,
“Gay Revolutionary.” Reprinted from The Congressional Record of the United States Congress. First printed in Gay Community News, February 15-21 1987

“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men. All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your
cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled. We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence—will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.”

I’d like to see what others have to say about this manifesto of theirs...whether real or imagined. Because to me, it is very “under-worldly”, predatory, and non-human like in it’s assertions.


37 posted on 06/30/2015 5:37:18 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: MrB

thx for that comment. i guess i expect some perversion but don’t go there first


38 posted on 07/02/2015 10:51:55 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone all iCommentaries I p44)
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To: MrB

thx for that distiction. Jessie Jackson operation Push used a rainbow coalition as well


39 posted on 07/03/2015 8:41:25 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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