[SeekAndFind]

This news is about 2 months old, but With the issue over Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples burning today, there is a simple solution to this that accommodates both people with religious objections and same-sex couples.

PASS A LAW SIMILAR As NORTH CAROLINA's !!

[HarleyLady27]

North Carolina has balls; how about the rest of the States in the United States of America?????

[gdani]

PASS A LAW SIMILAR As NORTH CAROLINA's !!

A better solution would be to get government out of the marriage business.

[fwdude]

This won’t matter. Some leftist black-robed tyrant will just declare such a law “unconstitutional,” the catch-all label to impose their agenda.

I’m not criticizing this law, just being a realist. We are now a lawless nation.

[Ray76]

> Once they have asked to opt out in writing, magistrates would be barred from performing any marriage, gay or heterosexual, for six months.

“Opting out” pertains to ALL marriages.

[DoodleDawg]

So that covers magistrates. But I assume a county clerk in North Carolina who refused to issue a marriage license would be facing the same kind of penalties that the one in Kentucky is facing?

[CGASMIA68]

Yes and do it like they did the gun grab in Connecticut,overnight, in an emergency session

[headstamp 2]

“Governor Pat McCrory, also a Republican, had said the officials who swore to defend the Constitution and perform their duties of office should not be exempt from upholding their oath.”

Unless you are the GOP Congress.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Exactly. Thank you.

[48th SPS Crusader]

a Republican, had said the officials who swore to defend the Constitution and perform their duties of office should not be exempt from upholding their oath.

I agree. The problem is there does not exist in the Constitution a provision that states homosexuals can marry. That is just a couple of judges “interpreting what the founders meant. The founders wrote what they meant. If they wanted homosexuals to marry it would have been written in there. So by not issuing license to homosexuals the clerks are actually upholding the Constitution when the judges with a great lack of spine did not............

[Sacajaweau]

The irony is taking the oath on the Bible.

[libbylu]

There is something to be said for being grandfathered in when your job description changes. This is very good.

[madprof98]

Gay rights advocates said a court challenge was expected.

Watch for a federal court to throw this out. The gay fanatics will not quit until every person in the country bows down and kisses . . . well, you know.