Posted on 09/03/2015 11:56:59 AM PDT by Cheerio
The Kentucky county clerk who made herself a national celebrity by refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses was jailed Thursday for contempt of court.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was taken into custody by U.S. marshals, according to reporters on the scene.
In sending her to jail, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ignored the American Civil Liberties Union's request that Davis be fined to compel compliance with orders that she issue marriage licenses.
ACLU attorney Heather Weaver, who is working on the case, said there was testimony about fundraising efforts on Davis' behalf, apparently a factor in the judge's decision not to impose financial penalties.
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I suggested Trump because he is the only one who would call this out for what it is....except Cruz.
But Trump would put it in much more bombastic language, which is what this needs, imo.
One of them needs to get on this toot sweet though, NOW!
All, it is time.
Really.
You would have to ask them.
Why is enforcement for Kim Davis done so quickly but enforcement for Lerner and Holder being delayed ( and even forgotten )?
Because the judge could order her jailed. No need for an indictment or trial. Congress can't do that.
RE: Because the judge could order her jailed.
Well, the first question is this -— has the matter been referred to the U.S. Attorney for D.C.?
Secondly, Is the U.S. Attorney for D.C. an independent entity or are they under the DOJ?
She's upholding Kentucky law. She is correct.
Did they arrest her or kill her?
Bunning was appointed in 2002 by George W. Bush.
The word “Jailed” is a good indicator.
“What an upside down world we live in.”
The poem below makes your point.
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The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall.
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn.
That water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision, and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorilas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither clud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market-Place;
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshiped the Gods of the Market Who promiced these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promiced perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: ‘Stick to the Devil you know.’
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promiced the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbor and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: ‘The Wages of Sin is Death/’
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selective Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: ‘If you don’t work you die.’
The the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tounged wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to belive it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four-—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Rudyard Kipling
While agree with what people are saying about the religious rights of individuals,
I think the clerk’s actions migh be more defensible if she simply claimed to be following Kentucky law and did not recognize the Supreme Court’s power to invalidate Knetucky law based on their own personal preferences.
Isn’t the real issue, the Supreme Court over turning state laws, approved by either a majority of states citizens or their duly elected legislature, not on the basis of the Constitution but basis on their own personal beliefs.
Essential the personal beliefs, preferences, ideology, of 5 individuals are being forced on a nation of 300 million.
When a majority of the 300 million have made it clear over again and over again (despite massive media campaigns to persuade them otherwise) their opposition to these 5 individuals personal beliefs, preferences and ideology.
On virtually every important issue the Democratic process is being subverted, in favor of an unelected elite ruling by decree.
Sorry I forgot how the savages react...almost lost my head there.
You're aware we wouldn't have a country in the first place if everyone shied away from direct physical action?
“Where the hell are America’s pastors ?
Ted Cruz has been calling on them to stand and be counted over this issue, abortion and many others. “
Most of them are too busy inviting the homosexuals into their churches to comply with this injustice
HIRELINGS and their jig is almost up
God’s word is true , God can NOT bless America for what it is doing .
lol
“A martyr is born.”
She will be used to preach the gospel where the hirelings won’t
The judge wouldn’t have done this to a Muslem, out of fear of reprisal. He’s a coward.
Yes I am but Jim Rob has rules here....one of them is not advocating violence.
I suspect you can read between the lines though...
Martyrs aren’t jailed
They are killed.
Just saying
I strongly suspect that “rule” was applicable to “normal” times.
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