Posted on 11/10/2015 12:37:23 PM PST by wagglebee
FRANKFORT, KY, November 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - On December 8, Kentucky will have a new governor, and Kim Davis will have a chance to do her job without denying her faith. Governor-elect Matt Bevin has promised that he will change the state's marriage forms, removing the name of the county clerk entirely - the reform Davis had pleaded with state lawmakers to enact before spending five days in jail.
Davis, the clerk of Rowan County in eastern Kentucky, is a born again Christian who believes participating in a same-sex "marriage" would make her guilty of a major sin. Before the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision imposing gay "marriage" on every state in the country, Davis said she petitioned every elected state official in Kentucky to grant her a religious accommodation.
No one replied, she said - including the current Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, and Jack Conway, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2015.
Davis said she would not stop other employees from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she wanted her name removed from the form, since it implied her personal consent.
But Gov. Beshear refused to accommodate her, ordering her to violate her sincerely held religious beliefs or lose her job.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning sent Davis to jail for five days for contempt of court.
When Kim Davis was released from jail on September 8, Matt Bevin was one of the people who visited her - along with Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz.
Last Tuesday, Bevin became the third Republican governor of Kentucky in 50 years. He told Laura Ingraham that he owed his popularity to his principled stand supporting life and religious liberty for people like Kim Davis.
Speaking with reporters last Friday, Bevin said, "One thing I will take care of right away is we will remove the names of the county clerks from the marriage form."
"We will take the names off those forms. We will do that by executive order. We will do it right out of the gate," he added.
Bevin alluded to other politicians who said the forms could not be altered without legislative action. "The argument that that cannot be done is baloney. We've already changed those forms three times for crying out loud," he said.
Davis sent word through her attorney that she was overjoyed at the development.
"Kim Davis and Liberty Counsel applaud Governor-elect Matt Bevin for his leadership in protecting the rights of conscience of all County Clerks," said Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, which directs its legal efforts to preserving religious liberty.
"It is refreshing to have someone with the integrity, character, and concern of Matt Bevin leading the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Gov. Steve Beshear could have resolved this marriage license issue a long time ago, but he chose to ignore the plea for help," he said.
"Governor-elect Bevin's impending executive order is a welcome relief for Kim Davis and should be for everyone who cherishes religious freedom," he concluded.
These judges are the revolutionaries, not me.
With your benign cooperation, they are violating their oaths, transgressing their legitimate jurisdiction and authority, and overthrowing our constitutional form of government.
“Surrendering the laws of nature and nature’s God and our constitutional form of government doesn’t get you anywhere incrementally. You’re badly mistaken.”
And you present NOTHING as a viable solution. I’m watching the debates now, and don’t want interruptions. Conversation is over. Good night.
Following the constitution and upholding our republican form of government is not “nothing.” You’re mistaken.
See ya.
BTTT for the present changes.
Not surprising.
But for SOME odd reason. Pope Benedict had a wider audience that C.S. Lewis.
Maybe there really was a C.L.Lewis but I never heard of him.
>>Half-measures are often worse than nothing.
That is often true. But consider this: the liberals got where they are today by half measures. They didn’t always get everything they wanted at every juncture, but they took what they could get and then they continued to apply pressure to get even more. They did not give up. We could learn a lesson from that. The main point is to NOT GIVE UP. If we settle for a half measure, then yes, it may be worse than nothing. If we take a half measure and use it as a stepping stone to our goals, then it’s a good thing.
Excellent point; with the people we have, this is all that can be done.
More importantly, as we’ve learned concerning the holocaust we call abortion, sometimes what look like half measures turn out to be full-scale surrenders with happy faces slapped on.
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