I agree. Run all this by a grand jury and arrest him. Simple and legal. I'd like to see this judge in handcuffs.
Posted on 09/08/2015 3:32:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Overriding Gov. Steve Beshear’s veto by overwhelming margins, the Kentucky house and senate have passed religious-freedom legislation. The Catholic Conference of Kentucky supported the measure.
The short law reads:
Government shall not substantially burden a person's freedom of religion. The right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be substantially burdened unless the government proves by clear and convincing evidence that it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest. A "burden" shall include indirect burdens such as withholding benefits, assessing penalties, or an exclusion from programs or access to facilities.
Hugh and Series
Some may want to call this the Kim Davis Amendment.
Ping!
Read, and think seriously about what it means.
Might be why the judge released Davis just hours ago. Better (for him) to release her on his terms than appear compelled to by, or get in a protracted fight with, the KY legislature.
The Sheriff is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of any County. Send the sheriff to take Judge Bunning into custody today, and bring him before a State Court on charges he violated State Law. The only way to rein in judicial tyranny is to confront it. If not now, when?
Ut OH Kentucky did it again!!!
...and my same question is Where was MrTurtle when all of this was going on?....
No where to be found, and no where to be heard from, and yet his position not only as a spineless sissy citizen from Kentucky, but also a spineless sissy as a Senator representing the State of Kentucky....
Seems to me that the people of Kentucky should demand his leaving not only the Senate as a Senator but as the (ahem) leader of the United States of America Senate...
I think Jim toasted him
Who can Kim sue for unlawful imprisonment?
She really needs to do that.
... motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be substantially burdened unless the government proves by clear and convincing evidence that it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest...
This means that an act motivated by religious belief by an individual and interfered with by government will be reviewed by the Court under strict scrutiny, the highest scrutiny.
Fat Boy Christie I thought you were a Lawyer?
I know.
But he can still read along.
I agree. Run all this by a grand jury and arrest him. Simple and legal. I'd like to see this judge in handcuffs.
This is plain idiocy. Passing these laws only reinforces the idea that we need government permission in order to practice our rights. There is already a law regarding this and it’s always been there, the supreme law. It starts out like this: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
Kim Davis got jailed for not doing her job, yet Bowe Bergdahl is a FREE MAN and U.S. troops DIED because of his defection. This is sickening.
The Kim Davis jailing may generate intense hatred for the corrupt federal judiciary. I would hate to see . . . never mind.
Government shall not substantially burden a person's freedom of religion. The right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be substantially burdened unless the government proves by clear and convincing evidence that it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest. A "burden" shall include indirect burdens such as withholding benefits, assessing penalties, or an exclusion from programs or access to facilities.
The "substantial" qualifier is a weasel word, and is completely unnecessary. It gives any lawyer the opening to construe "substantial" any way he wants, and a leftist court will side with the Marxists every time.
Is should be all or nothing.
Still a lot more Good people in Kentucky than them like Beshears—and Bunning. Perhaps this vote explains why Bunning was in a rush to free Kim Davis? She was apolitical prisoner from the git go—and her release was also politics.But the TYRANNY continues. “We have to keep pressing!”
State laws no longer count. In fact, state constitutions no longer count. Nor, really, does the US constitution. Nothing counts except the whimsy of an aging gay judge and his friends. Then it is THE RULE OF LAW.
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