Posted on 09/03/2015 12:01:24 PM PDT by xzins
Kim Davis, a Kentucky clerk who refused to issue gay marriage licenses got some rather bad news today, as a judge held her in contempt and has ordered her to jail.
Here are the details so far.
From NBC News:
A federal judge has ordered a Kentucky clerk to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, was found in contempt of court on Thursday morning. She has said granting marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples would “violate God’s definition of marriage” and infringe on her personal beliefs as an Apostolic Christian.
District Court Judge David Bunning has said Davis is bound by an oath of office to perform her duties under the law, and ordered that she be jailed until she complied with his order to grant licenses.
Bunning has upheld the Supreme Court’s decision in June to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, and wrote last month after the contempt lawsuit was filed that the state is merely forcing her to do her job within the law.
Davis, a registered Democrat, had worked as a deputy clerk for 27 years before voters in Rowan County elected her as clerk last November.
As an elected official, she can only be removed in a vote by state legislators, who don’t reconvene in the State House until January. While Davis certainly has the right to not be forced to do something against her conscience and religious beliefs, I feel that her continued refusal hasn’t really helped her cause any.
Rather than allow this get so far out of hand, perhaps she should’ve alerted the media to what was going on and then quit her job, using the exposure she would get from the situation to show her dedication to Christ and the gospel, which would be a super powerful testimony to believers and unbelievers alike.
Davis hasn’t chosen that course of action though, and it’s totally up to her to decide to do what she feels is best. I would’ve refused to issue the licenses as well, and would’ve walked out the door as a result.
Hopefully this will get resolved soon in a peaceful manner.
No. This is only about marginalizing Christians. That’s all it is.
Yep, disgusting. I'm so SICK of this country! SICK SICK SICK of KING OBAMA and his sub-tyrants!
O’Reilly is busy alarming the country over repeat, illegal immigrant offenders who have aggravated felonies on their record. Kate Steinle was murdered by one who had been released 5 previous times despite FELONIES.
This woman is arrested for her faith.
Whoever posted ‘bring your toothbrush’ had the right answer to what happened today.
A Republican appointed judge, a Republican, did this......
Will she go there or to a federal facility since a federal judge arrested her?
Meanwhile clinton and obama have committed treason and nothing happens to them.
She is being denied her religious liberty.
Will the ACLU help her?.....
Who said anything about agreeing with the decision? I think the Supreme Court got it wrong. But I also believe in the rule of law. If every county clerk (or individual, for that matter) got to just ignore court decisions and substitute their own beliefs, the rule of law would be no more.
>>Rather than allow this get so far out of hand, perhaps she should’ve alerted the media to what was going on and then quit her job, using the exposure she would get from the situation to show her dedication to Christ and the gospel, which would be a super powerful testimony to believers and unbelievers alike.
You mean like the Apostles did? Oh yeah....they went to jail instead of quitting.
And they say that justice is blind. The approved thinking on this subject is found with both Republican and Democrat judges, politicians, and civil servants.
There is no regard for faith, despite the Constitution saying that is the one thing the government cannot intrude upon.
When the fathers went to jail for sending their children to an ‘unlicensed’ Christian school in the early 1980’s during a civil disobedience situation I remember well,the protestors were outside in Nebraska.
Just admit it: you approve of homosexual marriages, and you oppose what Kim Davis was doing.
You mean like the Apostles did? Oh yeah....they went to jail instead of quitting.
Isn’t Obamaland great?
Don’t you love that no one is even trying to stop it? :)
“In any case, this lady could not issue marriage licenses. The KY law on this has yet to be written.”
It seems to me that is correct... If the law authorizing her to issue marriage licenses was deemed unconstitutional, then she has no authority to issue them until a new law is written. The old law essentially no longer exists.
The USSC didn’t change the old law, they just declared it not constitutional.
“I think the Governor can pardon her.”
Contact Governor Beshear
Mailing Address
700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 100
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Phone/Fax
Main Line: (502) 564-2611
Fax: (502) 564-2517
TDD: (502) 564-9551 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf)
http://governor.ky.gov/Pages/contact.aspx
I oppose both.
Vigil at the Jail House as soon as we discover which one.
Also, bail...let’s do a funding of her bail. I don’t think she can be denied bail can she?
Yes, except that she IS following the laws that she swore to uphold.
Not quite; she desistd from issuing licences to anybody, same sex or otherwise...
seems to me what she should have done is refuse to issue licences to anybody, and then used the reasoning that the state needs to issue guidance, in order for her to continue the process...instead, she forced a confrontation by citing religious convictions...
Of course, that may have been her purpose all along, and if so, I applaud her courage...
It strikes me as correct, also.
The courts just ruled that demonstrations outside the US Supreme Court are illegal.
I don’t know if that pertains to this local court house, but why wouldn’t it? Especially if the judge is ruling on his own protest. :)
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