Posted on 09/01/2015 3:09:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
Upon her election to the role of Rowan County Clerk in November 2014, Kim Davis said she felt "humbled" and "blessed." Speaking to the Morehead News, she made three promises: "I promise to each and every one that I will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter."
Davis's willingness, or unwillingness, to follow those statutes are now the subject of intense national focus. She has refused on religious grounds to grant marriage licenses -- to both same-sex or opposite-sex couples -- in the wake of June's historic Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide ...
Signing marriage licenses is one of the main duties for the county clerk. But Davis, a 49-year-old Apostolic Christian, objects to having to put her name on documents that recognize same-sex marriages ...
According to Rowan County records obtained by BuzzFeed News, Davis has been divorced three times. When she married Joe Davis on Aug. 24, 2009, it was her fourth marriage -- and her second to Joe, whom she previously married on the same day 13 years earlier. After her first marriage to Dwain Wallace in 1984, she married Thomas McIntyre Jr. in 2007 in between her marriages to Joe ...
Davis has worked as a clerk in Rowan County for more than 25 years. In May 2014 -- while serving as chief deputy in the clerk's office -- she narrowly won the Democratic nomination for the top job by 23 votes ...
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who cares how many times she was married?
She is standing in the gap much better than most members of the GOP
It’s like Joe the Plumber.
The media spent more time investigating the status of his trade license than they did Baraq’s bogus life story.
Wow a democrat?
The writers of this hit piece, that’s who.
It has nothing to do with the license. The gay couple could get a license from any number of other people willing to accommodate them.
This is about breaking her, personally. It is about forcing someone to go against their conscious. That has been the purpose from the beginning.
I don't care but the left is mocking her so called Christian values on forums such as Huffington, Kos and NPR.
me? conservative Republican. Married 43 years.
There is no statute that makes her sign a form for homosexual marriage. There is a Supreme Court ruling and not a piece of legislation. She is upholding her word.
It is long past time that the Supreme Court and the lower Federal Courts get the slap down they so desperately need.
that sucks..
I'm guessing that the issue is being raised by LGBT advocacy groups.
more than likely...
She may be “Apostolic” but in Byzantine Canon Law fourth marriages are prohibited. Period.
Well, she’s certainly not upholding the *really* traditional Christian understanding of marriage — the Latins don’t allow divorce (or rather, really don’t allow remarriage after a divorce) and we Orthodox don’t allow tetragammy (fourth marriages, regardless of whether after divorce with a blessing to remarry — given only to the innocent party when our hierarchs are behaving themselves properly — or widowhood).
as a Lutheran I have no idea what that law means.
Ah no. The article refer to her winning the dem nomination.
What statute exists? The SCOTUS doesn't write statutes.
Seems to me the question is one of should we be issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals.
It isn’t the question of whether this woman is perfect or not.
And in this instance, so far she is.
They forgot to mention that her divorces happened before she became a Christian.
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