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Kim Davis, the Woman Behind Bars
Liberty Counsel ^
| September 4, 2015
| lc.org
Posted on 09/04/2015 2:11:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Press Release
Grayson, KY –Mat Staver told press outside the Carter County Detention Center that he spoke with Kim Davis, and she is in good spirits. Kim is very touched by all the support she feels from people literally around the world. Her last words before leaving were, “All is well.”
“Despite being held as a prisoner for her religious beliefs, her conscience remains unshackled. We discussed her options going forward. We will challenge Judge Bunning’s contempt order and her unlawful confinement,” Staver said. “Kim is resolute in her decision to challenge the issuance of any marriage certificate bearing her name without her authority.”
Many of you have asked to speak with Kim. Up to this point, she has shied away from media interviews. Let me take a few moments to give you a glimpse of the woman behind the bars:
10 Facts You Should Know About Jailed Clerk Kim Davis
- Davis only asked that the Kentucky marriage license forms be changed so her name would not appear on them. She would record any license without her name affixed. Marriage licenses remain in county records permanently. Davis said, “I never imagined a day like this would come, where I would be asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus Himself regarding marriage. To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God’s definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience.”
- Before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Obergefell on June 26, 2015, 57 clerks, including Davis, wrote a letter to Kentucky legislators during the regular session, pleading with them to “get a bill on the floor to help protect clerks” who had a religious objection to authorizing the licenses. The Kentucky Clerks Association also recommend that the names of clerks be removed from the forms.
- Davis was elected County Clerk as a democrat in November 2014 and took office in January 2015, after her mother retired from the position. Before January, Davis was a Deputy Clerk for 27 years.
- Kim Davis became a Christian at a church service she attended to honor the dying wish of her mother-in-law, who passed away on a Sunday morning. Davis said, “Following the death of my godly mother-in-law over four years ago, I went to church to fulfill her dying wish. There I heard a message of grace and forgiveness and surrendered my life to Jesus Christ.”
- Davis, who is married to one of the 3 men she married and divorced, admits she was a sinner before she accepted Jesus Christ four years ago and changed her life.
- Kim Davis does not hate homosexuals or lesbians, as she explained: “I have no animosity toward anyone and harbor no ill will. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God’s Word. It is a matter of religious liberty….”
- Davis is a professing Christian who, before incarceration, attended church worship services multiple times per week and held a weekly Bible study with women at a local jail.
- As elected officials, Kentucky Clerks can only be removed from office if impeached by the Kentucky House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate. The Kentucky General Assembly does not meet until January 2016.
- The Supreme Court did not change Kentucky’s marriage law or its forms, but invalidated the legislation limiting marriage to opposite sex couples. It is up to each state’s legislature to conform the law to the opinion. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers filed a brief in Davis’s case, pointing out to the judge: “The Supreme Court ruling has completely obliterated the definition of marriage and the process for obtaining a marriage license in Kentucky. The General Assembly will be compelled to amend many sections of Kentucky law, not just for the issuance of marriage licenses, to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision.” The brief pointed out that the Governor can call a special session of the legislature, or he could issue an executive order about the licenses to later be codified by the legislature during the 2016 session. A judge is not a super-legislature that can rewrite the law.
- Davis is being represented at no charge by attorneys with Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family. Liberty Counsel was founded in 1989 and has offices in Florida, Virginia and Washington, D.C., an outreach in Israel, and hundreds of advocates around the world.
We will continue to stand with Kim Davis and others who assert their conscience. Kim joins a long list of people who were imprisoned for their conscience. People who today we admire like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Jan Huss, John Bunyan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and more. Each had their own cause, but they all share the same resolve not to violate their conscience.
Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; atruechristian; bravewoman; courageous; election2016; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; jucialactivism; kentucky; kimdavis; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; religiousfreedom; tedcruz; texas; tyranny
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To: Essie
If willful failure to uphold the law is the standard, Obama should have been jailed a long time ago. Hillary, too. And Eric whatshisname the AG. And Lois Lerner. It’s a never ending list.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:02:57 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Zippo44
I don’t think anyone is forgetting she is a democrat.
I think this issue and some others transcend political partys.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:03:03 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
To: RobbyS
Trump does not seem like someone who wants to get into the details. Plus, his background makes it unlikely he could see the world from the viewpoint of a simple woman from Kentucky.Trump released a white paper or policy statement on immigration full of details and he plans to release others on other topics. How many of his competitors have done the same?
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:04:56 PM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: Jim Robinson
I'm surprised they haven't stashed her in an insane asylum. That's usually the method for those in a communist dictatorship who don't see the wisdom of Obedience to the State. Big Brother can pump her full of drugs, until she loves the Government.
And the police wonder why we hate them. (Who arrested her? Who is keeping her behind bars? It sure as hell isn't the judge!) Were the police only following orders? How did that excuse work for some others?
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:05:36 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
To: ColdSteelTalon
I would direct you to the study of great revolutionaries...
You will see that all of them share certain tactics, and use of nonviolent protest, at least in the beginning.
But before that can happen, we need a lot more PO’d citizens willing to stand.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:07:25 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
To: Cold Heat
People have lanquished in jail for years when held in contempt for disobeying a judges order. I understand that her path to freedom requires she issue licenses or order clerks to do so. Both acts offend he First Amendment rights.
But! We run a danger by relying solely on freedom of religion to preverve our right to refuse to do acts on grounds of conscience. A rstional athiest or agnostic should be able to refuse as Kim does on freedom of conscience grounds alone.
If we stay in religious objections they will further have reason to abuse the Kims of this country.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:09:46 PM PDT
by
amihow
To: Cold Heat
People have lanquished in jail for years when held in contempt for disobeying a judges order. I understand that her path to freedom requires she issue licenses or order clerks to do so. Both acts offend he First Amendment rights.
But! We run a danger by relying solely on freedom of religion to preverve our right to refuse to do acts on grounds of conscience. A rstional athiest or agnostic should be able to refuse as Kim does on freedom of conscience grounds alone.
If we stay in religious objections they will further have reason to abuse the Kims of this country.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:09:56 PM PDT
by
amihow
To: amihow
Well, the 1st amendment defense is the most obvious breach by the court. Job discrimination as the result of a religious objection without some effort to accommodate the objector by any entity should be a easy court case under normal circumstances.
But the scotus decision has thrown a wrench into what was a strained but still intact remaining part of our constitutional protections.
So yeah, we have to use it but there are other sections in the constitution that are violated as well and all of them need to be used as a legal matter.
As to further abuse od the Kim’s...You can count on it!
You will see the federal government through it’s courts, begin to force all churches that allow marriages and or holy matrimony services in their sanctuary’s, to afford that same privilege to any gay couple that asks.
This has already occurred in some of the UK and Europe.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:21:41 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
To: ColdSteelTalon
This is all about religious and other freedoms. Marriage is one battle in the war that liberals are waging against the Constitution.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:27:50 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: The Iceman Cometh
F*ck the federal government.
I concur.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:34:18 PM PDT
by
lyby
("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Or Jindal...
Bobby Jindal unloads on Donald Trump for not backing Kim Davis: “You can’t make America great again by throwing the Christians in jail.”
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:35:10 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
To: mlizzy
Jindal scored some points with that shot against The Donald.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:37:09 PM PDT
by
Vision Thing
("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
To: Cold Heat
But no one is PO’d enough about it to do anything. There is a breaking point; I don’t know where it is, but when it’s reached....hopefully it’s not too late. It may be already.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:40:55 PM PDT
by
tenger
(Trump vs. Sanders would certainly be entertaining)
To: Vision Thing
Yes, he did; we’ve been patiently waiting for Trump to show his true colors. Huckabee made some good points too.
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posted on
09/04/2015 3:52:38 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
To: Jim Robinson
Thank you, Liberty Counsel
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posted on
09/04/2015 4:05:21 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: Jim Robinson
Thanks for sharing this. It sheds light on a lot of the questions of the propaganda that the media has been broadcasting.
In a nutshell, what is happening is that she asked that her name be removed from the marriage licenses being issued. She does not want her name to be associated with this perversion. Essentially, the court is imprisoning her to force her to issue these licenses with her name on them. No other options allowed.
The picture of her walking with her hands in cuffs and legs shackled in chains was very touching. They want to humiliate her. I know is was probably embarrassed to show the cuffs, but she probably should have walked with the cuffs and the leg irons exposed for the whole world to see in this case. THEY ARE A BADGE OF HONOR!!!
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posted on
09/04/2015 4:12:19 PM PDT
by
Moorings
To: Jim Robinson
Back in 1776, Continental President Rutledge ordered the King’s appointed governor of South Carolina to leave the state or die. He fled to an armed British slope sitting in Charleston Harbor. Rutledge appointed Col. Moultrie to set up a defense on Sullivan Island against the British armada. Long story short, the British Navy got its butt kicked.
It’s way past time for conservatives today to spend their fortunes, honor and time to kick ass against the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington.
To: Jim Robinson
Why arent all the civil servants/public officials who deliberately disobey federal laws by having sanctuary cities in jail too?
Because—Rules are only for conservatives and Christians, liberals can do anything they want.
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posted on
09/04/2015 5:09:39 PM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
( liberalism=totalitarianism- http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/06/the-new-totalitarians-are-here/)
To: tenger
Is there anything the citizens of the state can do against the judge?
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posted on
09/04/2015 5:23:35 PM PDT
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
To: Jim Robinson
This is just the beginning. Like Fort Sumter.
Christians, put on your battle armor!
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posted on
09/04/2015 5:34:08 PM PDT
by
miserare
( RIP Officer Henry Nelson, RIP Deputy Darren Goforth; RIP Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz)
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