Posted on 09/07/2015 7:26:19 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A defiant county clerk in Kentucky is willing to stay in jail for her beliefs, but she would prefer to be a free woman.
Attorneys for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis have officially appealed a judge's decision to put her in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The three-page motion doesn't include arguments as to why Davis should be released but amends Davis' earlier appeal of the judge's order.
Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered her to issue the licenses and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his order.
[RELATED: Kentucky clerk appeals order putting her in jail]
But Davis still refused to do it, saying she could not betray her conscience. Bunning then put her in jail for refusing to obey his order.
On Monday, Attorney General Jack Conway, who is also running for Kentucky Governor, said he has sympathy for the Rowan County Clerk.
"She's obviously in a heartfelt position right now," said Conway. "She is not in jail for religious beliefs, she's in jail because she defied a federal judge's court order. We are a nation of laws and the rule of law has to prevail."
U.S. District Judge David Bunning said Davis would remain behind bars until she complies. Her deputy clerks started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Friday. Davis' lawyers say the marriage licenses issued in her absence are not valid without her signature.
[RELATED: Beshear, Bevin among those sounding off on clerk controversy]
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This godless judge needs to be held in contempt of GOD!! Don’t want to be there.
Call out the Kentucky State Militia and order them to free this woman by any means necessary.
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It's a battle of wills, but the court can't hold you for life for adhering to your conscience, when your conscientious actions do no harm.
Pure sophistry.
The judge's order was about her religious beliefs. He said if she didn't violate them he'd throw her in jail
Herod's henchman told John the Baptist if he didn't shut up about Herodias, that he'd find himself in jail.
John, of course, should have resigned his position as prophet if he couldn't say nice things about the queen.
They just need a Habeas Corpus. It is over. That judge had no authority over a sovereign elected official. ZERO. Those queer “licenses” are not worth squat!!Huge mistake for judge. It will be fun to watch. She wins EASY!!
“We are a nation of laws and the rule of law has to prevail.”
Conway obviously knows nothing about the basis for the rule of law.
To believe the judicial supremacist lie, that the courts rule over us, no matter how immoral or unconstitutional their opinions, you have to believe some really unbelievable, ridiculous, and even frightening things.
You have to believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo were wrong. They should have gone ahead and bowed down to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden idol.
You have to believe that the Apostles were wrong. They should have shut up about the Gospel of Jesus Christ when they were told by civil authorities to do so. .
You have to believe that the great Roman statesman Cicero was wrong, that there is no universally-applicable natural law which binds all men everywhere, throughout time.
You have to believe that Augustine was wrong when he said that, “an unjust law is no law at all.”
You have to believe that Thomas Aquinas was wrong when he said that, “Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.”
You have to believe that William Blackstone was wrong when he said, “this natural law, being as old as mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, from this original.”
You have to believe that Samuel Adams was wrong when he said that, “[A]ll men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.”
You have to believe that Alexander Hamilton was wrong when he said that, “The Sacred Rights of Mankind...are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power,” and that “the judiciary... has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
You have to believe that Thomas Jefferson was wrong when he said that, “it is a very dangerous doctrine to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
You have to believe that all of America’s founders were wrong when they challenged and defeated the supreme civil authority of that old tyrant King George III.
You have to believe that Abraham Lincoln was wrong when, in his first Inaugural Address, he said that, “if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers...”
You have to believe that Justice Taney should have been obeyed into perpetuity when he pronounced in the infamous Dred Scott opinion that black men were not human beings.
You have to believe that it was fine for a tinpot probate judge to pronounce a literal death sentence by dehydration and starvation on a helpless disabled woman, and that it was acceptable to have the entire legal and political establishment of Florida and of the United States stand passively by as her tormentors tortured her to death by cruel and unusual means.
You have to believe that it’s just fine that, by judicial decree, and through the passive connivance of a whole generation of American lawyers and politicians, more than fifty-five million defenseless babies have been brutally slaughtered, even though those same politicians swore a sacred oath to God to provide equal protection for the right to life of every person under their jurisdiction
You have to believe that nobody can do a thing when judges, in gross violation of the laws of nature and nature’s God, and contrary to every single clause of the stated purposes of the Constitution of the United States, invent an imaginary “right” for a man to “marry” a man, or for a woman to “marry” a woman, even though such a perverted thing is physically, naturally, impossible.
You have to believe that our Constitution, and our republican form of government, with its necessary checks and balances, is a dead letter.
You have to believe that the sacred oath of office is nothing more than a formality or a photo op.
Americans need to quit believing nonsense. It’s killing people, and destroying American self-government in liberty.
No one is speaking up. Where is the pope? Where are the priests, reverends, rabbis, etc.? Isn’t that the real question, why no one is speaking up? I suspect the religious elite have moved on from this, they don’t care anymore. Cynically, I think they are probably more worried about protecting their predator brethren than whether a few homosexuals get “married”. Kim Davis didn’t get that message and is now out on her own. If she cannot issue the licenses, she should resign.
You underestimate the arrogance, duplicity and ego of the federal court system. It never errs, just ask it.
Of course you are right— I was just addressing the actual LAW!!
She holds the key to her jail cell: Resign her office, and the jail cell door opens and she walks out a free woman.
The right to freedom of religion cannot be the right to do whatever one’s religion requires when acting as an elected government official. Otherwise, that excuse could be used to justify whatever any politician wanted to do or not do, regardless of the law and regardless of the orders and decisions of courts.
Absolutely! Our religious leaders are useless. I have no respect for them at all.
And saying that makes him a lying son of a bitch. If that were true, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Hillary in particular, would have been in prison long ago.
Conway is a douche. Everybody here in Kentucky knows he is a douche. The democrats know he is a douche, but they will still vote for him, as many times as they can get away with. My apologies to all the semi-pro douches out there, Conway is a professional douche.
What about the sense of entitlement that these two women displayed. This is their law and you are gonna follow it or else. Did they have any concern for the dilemma the clerk was faced with? Did they kindly say they would look elsewhere for a more favorable outcome? No.
Was it Henry David Thoreau who said, “When the law is wrong, break it”.
Well said!
Unless you can point to the limitation language in the 1st about shall not prohibit the free expression thereof. And point to where the federal govt was given the authority to make a law respecting an establishment of religion - of which marriage always has been then do not play the law game. its clear the court is wrong here and shes standing up for clearly defined fundamental rights in the US Constitution.
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