Kim Davis, the Woman Behind Bars

Liberty Counsel ^ | September 4, 2015 | lc.org

[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

1. 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.”
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.”
5. 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.
6. 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….”
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

[miserare]

I love Bobby Jindal!

[SamAdams76]

I hope that we have finally reached the turning point and that the pendulum will start to swing the other way.

[P-Marlowe]

Why has she been denied bail?

She is not being held for trial. She has been convicted... of contempt of a contemptible court. The judge can keep her there until she caves in and starts issuing homosexual marriage licenses with her signature.

[Cold Heat]

It may well be tenger...

[mlizzy]

We do too! ♥

Bobby Jindal 2016

[left that other site]

To hear an incredible cacophony of hate, listen to the recording of the vicious, vile, evil crowd of pervs rejoicing at the announcement that a Christian woman is going to jail.

When I heard this on the radio, I was stunned, and could only imagine the crowds at the Roman circus cheering the lions as they shredded the Christians.

[daniel1212]

May God bless you for standing up to support this victim of demonic persecution and and judicial tyranny. I think too many conservatives do not see where this is heading.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Some of those people just don’t understand. Others don’t want to understand, they are so sufficiently committed to evil.

[left that other site]

that is true.

[daniel1212]

Trump wrote letters and helped free Sgt Tahmorissi from Mexican prison. Have him $25000. How many cases must he personally involve himself with??

How many of this magnitude will he avoid?

Washington (CNN)Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he wished a Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, was not jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but he added that the Supreme Court has ruled and it is "the law of the land."

And as i have said, by that rationale one could say he wished Christians were not killed for refusing to convert to Islam, but that it is "the law of the land." Not much hope for Trump being a strong social conservative, or a real Christian. I think this shows one of the weaknesses of Trump, that of a morality that lacks a solid theological basis. Which is why he has shifted on abortion, and is weak against the sodomitic agenda, .

As far back as 2000, Trump was advocating the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation

In the same interview, Trump said he favored “a very strong domestic-partnership law” that guaranteed same-sex couples equal legal rights as married, heterosexual couples. Trump also said he believed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell – the military’s then-ban on openly gay service members – had “clearly failed.”

In his 2000 book, “The America That We Deserve,” Trump outlined his dream of a nation “unencumbered by...discrimination against people based on sexual orientation.” Eleven years later, Trump told CBN’s “The Brody File” that gay people were “tremendous” and that “there can be no discrimination against gays.”

Despite that record of supporting nondiscrimination protections for gay people, however, Trump has angered many LGBT advocates with his consistent opposition to marriage equality and relative silence on transgender rights. - http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-2016s-most-lgbt-friendly-republican

[daniel1212]

When I heard this on the radio, I was stunned, and could only imagine the crowds at the Roman circus cheering the lions as they shredded the Christians.

Yes, that is an apt analogy.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (Proverbs 12:10)

[daniel1212]

Everyone seems to forget that Kim Davis is a Democratic Party member and elected official.

So if we remembered that then it would make her arrest and imprisonment without even bail justified?

Down South being Democrat is not like in Vermont, though I still find that hard to excuse, as it is hard enough to even be a Republican as a Christian. But she is only a 4 year old believer, and needs to grow more in knowledge.

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3332769/posts?page=151#151

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3332769/posts?page=185#185

[Shelayne]

His statements on this, and when he says (paraphrasing) “Some candidates don't want to fund ‘Women's health issues’, which are so important”, have given me pause, when I was starting to give him another look. It sounds to me that he is talking about the calls to defund Planned Parenthood, but I would like him to clarify what he means by “women's health issues”.

[left that other site]

I LOVE that verse from Proverbs! Thanks, Daniel!

[Cold Heat]

I’ve been looking around, and there are some small limitations..

Another significant contempt statute, often referred to as the federal recalcitrant witness statute, is 28 U.S.C. § 1826. This statute is triggered “[w]henever a witness in any proceeding before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States refuses without just cause shown to testify or provide other information.”103 In cases where the witness so refuses without just cause, the involved court may summarily order the confinement of the witness until such time as the witness changes his or her mind. Although a stubbornly resistant witness may be confined to coerce compliance, the period of confinement may not exceed the term of the grand jury or the life of the court proceeding.104 In no case, however, may this coercive-oriented confinement exceed 18 months105 – creating the possibility that coercive confinement will terminate even in fact of disobedience.106

In addition to this, the court generally cannot impose both a fine and imprisonment.

[mbj]

Thank you for looking into possible limitations and posting it here.

[JediJones]

Below is the quote that this judge wrote in his ruling. The man has the impulses of a tyrant. He would have gladly followed the marching orders of the Nazis to put the Jews in the ovens and then claimed he was in the right because he was "just following orders." How is a man who claims he should follow the dictates of a ruler on earth on a higher moral ground than a woman who claims she should follow the dictates of God?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/04/he-has-guts-judge-david-bunning-the-same-sex-marriage-decisions-unlikely-enforcer/

“Our form of government will not survive unless we, as a society, agree to respect the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions, regardless of our personal opinions,” Bunning wrote last month in his decision ordering Davis to begin issuing marriage licenses. “Davis is certainly free to disagree with the court’s opinion, as many Americans likely do, but that does not excuse her from complying with it. To hold otherwise would set a dangerous precedent.”

[Cold Heat]

SCOTUS is essentially his superior. I would have been very surprised if he went against his boss, his guide, his superior court.

He no judge Roy Moore...there is but one of him...Just one.

[Cold Heat]

This hit my inbox about two hours ago...

Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, will join supporters at a rally outside the Carter County Detention Center on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET. The “I’m with Kim” Rally is organized by Gov. Mike Huckabee. Liberty Counsel is willing to join any group that stands in support of Kim Davis.

“I visited with Kim today, and she is good spirits,” Staver said. “I went to the jail to encourage her, but she encouraged me! Her opening and closing comment was, ‘All is well!’”

Kim Davis supporters have been calling, emailing, and using social media to ask, “What can I do to help Kim?” Liberty Counsel has already heard from pastors who are sending buses of supporters to the rally on Tuesday. If you are near Kentucky, here is a great opportunity to stand against judicial tyranny and the unlawful imprisonment of Kim. Join us on Tuesday, September 8, at 3:00 p.m.!”

Tues., Sept. 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM ET

Carter County Detention Center

13 Crossbar Road, Grayson, KY

[Jim Robinson]

Ask the good judge if the ruling made by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney who stated in part that the black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect should have been respected regardless of personal opinion.

If I remember correctly, the mess created by that Supreme Court ruling was quite expensive for everyone involved. And the costs are still piling up today, over 150 years later.