Posted on 09/04/2015 2:46:16 AM PDT by markomalley
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed that the jailing of Rowan County, Kentucky Democratic Clerk Kim Davis “could be the last front in a losing battle against same-sex marriage” as she had been refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage on June 26.
While the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all led with Davis being jailed and how she had cited her Christian faith in declining to issue licenses, they have yet to mention in any of their coverage in past three days that Davis is a Democrat.
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Reporting from Kentucky for CBS, national correspondent Dean Reynolds explained that “supporters of Kim Davis engaged in a fire-and-brimstone rally” as “they tried to make the legal tide turn in her favor, but in the quiet of his courtroom, Judge David Bunning made it clear that he would not be swayed.”
Turning to NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt described Davis as “defiant” with “[h]igh drama as protests rage on both sides” outside the federal courthouse in Ashland, Kentucky.
Inside, Holt hyped that the judge “drew a clear line as to where religious freedom ends and the law of the land begins” with his decision as the Democratic county clerk unsuccessfully “stood her ground.”
Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez included in his segment a nod to social media, reporting that it “lit up in response both in favor of and appalled by the judge's ruling” and touted the following response to the situation from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest: “There is no public official that is above the rule of law.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, anchor David Muir billed the story as “the showdown” with Davis “now hauled off to jail” and “behind bars after refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples.”
Correspondent Alex Perez told viewers that “[t]he showdown” was “ending in jail” for Davis as she was “led away, cheers and boos from the crowd.” Later in his story, Perez became the only network reporter to carry soundbites from 2016 GOP presidential candidates Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee, observing that “[t]he flashpoint issue” is “reverberating on the campaign trail.”
Sorry, CBS; same-sex “marriage” is a modern-day invention.
Total agreement.
The Left has reached critical mass, and the resources of a nation-state are at their command.
Not long now...
My guess is that these “couples” are hired hacks. They are receiving compensation for persecuting anyone who refuses to provide services for their perversions. Who is paying them, I don’t know, but it’s like Black Lives Matter and other radical troublemakers. Someone with deep pockets and a vested interest in destroying America is financing them. This isn’t just “two people in love who want to get married,” as the complicit liberal media is portraying them to be.
Well, very well said. The entire resources-the taxes we pay, the courts, the government at every level (including many of those “conservative” state house and local officials we crowed about), the media shaping public opinion or lying about public opinion, I don’t know which it is anymore, this country is so reprobate and apathetic, the educational system indoctrinating children, including our children-children from Christian families-this nation is no longer under the blessing of God, I believe it’s likely already under His curse.
Are these hypothetical questions, or do you really not understand what's going on?
Actually, the last front will be Jesus’ return. And we will continue to lose up to that point. Then we “win”.
You are missing their point and goal. If there are 100 clerks and only one who refuses, the one is who they will go to. They are looking for this fight to wipe out all opposition.
It’s not the first hint.
Yeah. The left is licking its chops as it prepares to eliminate the last vestiges of Christianity.
The left is outlawing Christianity. Christians are not happy.
The blessing has been removed. The curse is about to fall.
Soros.
Look up the word “Smarmy” in your Webster’s dictionary.
You’ll find Scott Pelley’s face.
What CBS’s Pelley is really saying, “hoohrah! the constitution is dead” as this woman goes to jail for defending her religious beliefs. Sure enough the next shoe to fall will be the baker who refuses to bake a cake. These judges are out of control, they let felons and illegals roam free to prey on innocent folks, and toss folks in jail for religious beliefs.
Last stand? Guess smarty pants Perez has not heard of the state of North Carolina.
The New First Amendment to the US Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, except Congress may prohibit the free exercise of religion for public officials and business enterprises when their beliefs conflict with official duties or the ordinary course of their commerce, and upon objection made by a public official or business enterprise, proscribe the free exercise of religion with jail and/or fines as a contempt of court, or barring from public office or from engaging in commerce in the United States of America; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
While that language is not in the text, the Courts see it, nonetheless.
What specific law has Davis actually broken by not issuing homosexual licenses?
By issuing no legitimate licenses (heterosexual), she is not performing her job, but there is no law providing for homosexual marriage in KY and the SCOTUS does not have jurisdiction in this area because of the habitually ignored 10th amendment. The 14th amendment does not provide accommodation for homosexual marriage. SCOTUS is doing what they always do; they inject something into the constitution that is simply not there nor was it the intention of the authors of the constitution and amendments for such an interpretation to be possible. Does anyone think that the 4th amendment authors intended that it be used for a perverted interpretation legalizing abortion or that the 14th provides for homosexual marriage?
We really have to revisit Marbury vs. Madison and the whole premise of supreme court supremacy in areas that they have no or limited jurisdiction.
Marriage redefinition was NOT “legalized.” I refuse to repeat the fake talking points.
They are not hypothetical they could be described as rhetorical though.
Yeah, I understand.
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