Posted on 09/03/2015 10:42:51 AM PDT by aimhigh
A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Rowan County clerk Kim Davis and her deputy clerks were summoned to appear before U.S. District Judge David Bunning after she repeatedly denied them marriage licenses, cited her religious beliefs and "God's authority."
"You can't be separated from something that's in your heart and in your soul," Davis told the judge as she explained how the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide conflicts with the vows she made when she became a born-again Christian.
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Well, there it is. She has the satisfaction of knowing that she's acted in accordance with her conscience, and I applaud her for it. But things ought never to have come to this pass.
And she can enjoy that satisfaction in jail. Her choice.
Oh, I won't disparage her. I wish I had that kind of fortitude. Things haven't reached that point yet (for me).
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