Posted on 09/04/2015 3:26:40 AM PDT by markomalley
With shackles around her ankles and waist, this is the moment the defiant Kentucky clerk who is refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses was led away from federal court - and taken to jail.
Kim Davis, 49, was told by U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Thursday that she would stay behind bars until she complied with his order to resume issuing the licenses to gay couples.
Donning a blue top and striped skirt, Davis, a thrice-divorced Apostolic Christian who works at Rowan County Courthouse, said 'thank you' before being led from the courtroom by a marshal.
She later insisted that she would not accept a compromise that would allow her out of jail. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had proposed to the court that Davis be freed if she promised not to interfere with her deputies. But Davis refused - noting her name would still be on the licenses.
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I think she should resign for her own good, but it's really not a big deal. If I were the Federal judge in this case I would have thrown it out of court and told the plaintiffs to take their case to a venue where it belongs: the Kentucky court system.
Kentucky actually has a criminal statute on its books that covers a situation where a public official refuses to do his or her job. It really sounds to me as if that's the only legal process that might apply here ... and since it appears that there is no applicable Kentucky marriage statute here, there likely couldn't be any prosecution anyway.
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It's a federal court so it'd be the U.S. Marshals.
Our government is a disgrace. Everything is upside down.
There was a story I read this morning about an 11 year old boy who was home alone when his house was invaded. The boy shot one of the home invaders and the other ran away.
The police are investigating why the boy was home alone and why he had access to a gun. That’s right, focus the blame the victims. I’m wondering if the mother will lose custody.
BTW the boy dropped the home invader with one shot.
May your chains wear lightly upon you FRiend.
"Resign or be persecuted" sounds like a purge to me.
I am sick of seeing this posted over and over and over about whoever it is we are currently angry about. Christians should be repenting of our own sins and praying for the conversion of other sinners. Wishing for eternal damnation of anyone imperils our own salvation.
I agree, the judge just isn’t smart.
He ordered the deputy clerk’s to issue licenses. Which they can’t do under their own signatures at all or under a facsimile of the clerk’s signature without her permission.
The judge even said there was a risk that he was ordering them to produce invalid licenses.
If he was smart, he would have ordered her jailed. Left the deputy clerk’s out of it. Put the burden on the political process to resolve the matter while she sat in jail. Unfair, unfortunate and unpleasant for the clerk, but that is what standing by your conscience now requires.
So now these couples will be married under legally invalid licenses. Which will be subject to all sorts of legal challenges, some possibly based on fraud and forgery.
And I wouldn't have signed any "marriage licenses," either.
I agree. The judge doesn’t need damnation. He needs prayers.
Starting with one for him to be provided with a brain. See my post immediately above.
The state has no real authority to grant marriage licenses to heterosexual couples, either.
It's funny how so many limited-government conservatives overlook the most obvious intrusive abuses of government authority in their lives.
No new law was passed. Existing, duly enacted law of a sovereign state was declared null and void via SCOTUS diktat.
It is the governors and legislators of those states who have failed us, including mine.
You speak truthfully.
I nearly posted a brazen post here yesterday, and then deleted it before actually hitting Post.
Christians in the Middle East are beheaded, tortured, crucified, raped, driven from their homes, churches burned and destroyed....
And here we are with the stuff happening here...like ...where’s the outrages for the promises of our founding documents?
“the free exercise there of;” that is the other half of that sentence! It doesn’t say just on Sundays, it says...the free exercise there of...
If her intent was to follow the letter of the law, she would have signed the marriage licenses for the heterosexual couples and refused to sign them for the same-sex couples. This would have exposed the whole system -- including the Kentucky state government and the Federal courts -- as the complete fraud that it is.
A move to break her spirit, psychological warfare.
Do you support consanguineous marriage?
Do you support child marriage?
What do you mean by “support” these things? Do you mean from a legal or political perspective?
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.
Jonathan Adler, writing in the Washington Post, reminded us of Antonin Scalia’s argument about the death penalty: If the justice believed that his official participation in the legal machinery of death was immoral, then he could not be a judge while capital punishment remained on the books.
Antonin Scalia is making the same point I've been making with Kim Davis.
Christians have accepted dhimmi (second class status) in their own civilization.
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