She needs this: I watch part of the 2 hour show today, and I want a copy.
Posted on 08/27/2015 2:51:58 PM PDT by NYer
ROWAN COUNTY, KY, August 27, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- A federal appeals court has ordered Christian clerk Kim Davis to provide same-sex “marriage” licenses, but she’s refusing to give in.
Davis, a Democrat, says that her Christian beliefs will not allow her to issue licenses for same-sex “marriages.” Despite pressure from Democrat Gov. Steve Beshear, a lawsuit from the ACLU, and two federal court rulings, Davis has refused to issue any licenses while the matter is still working its way through the courts.
However, the Sixth District Court of Appeals said Davis must issue the licenses.
While critics say Davis must follow the law as a public employee, she says the First Amendment protects her decision even as a government worker. In addition to being sued by the ACLU, she has pro-actively taken her case to court.
Beshear told all government employees that "you can continue to have your own personal beliefs, but, you’re also taking an oath to fulfill the duties prescribed by law, and if you are at that point to where your personal convictions tell you that you simply cannot fulfill your duties that you were elected to do, then obviously an honorable course to take is to resign and let someone else step in who feels that they can fulfill those duties.”
The initial court decision against Davis was stayed 10 days ago. Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, whose organization represents Davis, told CNN that they might appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and are hoping the high court would issue a stay of the Sixth Circuit ruling in the interim.
A poll of Kentucky voters that was released last month found that 50 percent of the state backs natural marriage, while only 37 percent supported its redefinition.
I did that before this whole "gay marriage" thing came along. I don't just blindly follow laws. If they go against my God's Word, I won't follow them, even if the forces of the state put me in jail or murder me, because I (and millions more of us) answer to a higher power than government. If the laws involve a power government has not been given, I will not follow it.
The fact that Americans--millions of Americans-- believe there is no higher power than government, no higher duty than to obey the laws of government, is horrific to me. My country is gone, and I mourn the loss.
A rule--Godwin's Law-- made by moral midgets who do not realize that most governments differ from the Nazis merely in degree, not in kind.
That is such an infantile response. You don't still live in your parents' basement, do you?
Well said, your #26.
Thanks for confirming your position: no Christians need apply to government jobs. Now scuttle along back to Democrat Underground.
As much as I hate to say it, I agree with this. Just like in the private sector, sometimes job descriptions change. And if you don't agree to the new requirements they don't have to keep you.
I feel for the clerk and I understand her viewpoint totally, but I think she needs to realize that her old job (marriage licenses) is gone and she is not suited to the new job ("marriage" licenses).
This is just one example of the kind of thing that is happening due to this irresponsible and poorly-reasoned court decision by Kennedy.
Or, put another way, if I believe God is against that law, I won't obey it, and government can kill me or my family, but they can't make me obey willingly.
And they HATE that they don't have the power to coerce us just yet. Just read some of the responses on this thread-- they are just dying for more coercion.
Thanks. The moral midgets have outlawed comparisons to Nazi Germany, because the were tired of their actions being compared to something so hated. Well, when the comparison is apt, I will make it, no matter how many nattering nerdy nabobs are caterwauling, "Godwin's Law! Godwin's Law! You lose! You lose!" Infantile.
I'm pretty sure the Progs will not agree to that. You see, what they want is the CONTROL over individuals, to FORCE Christians to go along with the homosexual madness. It's not rational, it's mentally sick, but it's what they do.
Progs?
It's an elected position!
Just bake the cake, huh? Just sign the 'marriage' license, right? Just obey ALMIGHTY government, because there is no higher duty?
No thanks.
Progs = Progressives. It’s their term. They are identifying with the Woodrow Wilson / Franklin Delano Roosevelt school of thought about American government, which says, “The Constitution says anything I want it to, and I have enough power to force you people to do anything I can gin up a majority to lord it over you with.”
She’ll end up in jail on contempt charges.
Kind of hard to say a government job removes religious rights - I’ve seen Muslims, in uniform, on their prayer rugs and doing the “praise Allah” thing...
“If her religious beliefs don’t allow her to do the job, she should resign.”
Agreed. This isn’t a private business, it’s the state. And I don’t want any government officials deciding for themselves which laws apply and which don’t.
Also government has broken the social contract which these United States were established in the first place; therefore this clerk's only appeal is to a higher power beyond the subjective viewpoints of a Supreme Court that has ignored Natural Law. If homosexuality is considered under the boundaries of Natural Law, then every single sexual fetish exercised by human beings should also be within the boundaries of Natural Law.
Libertarians are a joke and hypocrites, especially when they wave their pompoms around the founders and case law while ignoring the original purpose the founders established concerning government and the reason for the social contract in the first place.
Nice try. But Muslims can cite their own scripture.
I’m sure Obama can cite passages to justify his decision not to enforce laws; surely you’re okay with that too, right?
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