This is what a coward does. What he should do is tell the Supreme Court that they have no authority over marriage in the state of Kentucky. Folks, there is no middle ground on this issue and fudging at the edges isn’t going to solve anything.
Governor Bevin should cite the fight over woman’s suffrage back in the late 1800’s as his quide in how to deal with this issue. Women did not have the right to vote, then gained this right in several states over a period of time resulting in Constitutional Amendment number Nineteen.
He should explain that there is a Tenth Amendment and it has not been repealed which reserves all powers NOT listed in the Constitution to the states and one of those issues is marriage.
Start fighting, stop fudging.
He should tell the Supreme Court to, pardon the pun, “Stick It”.
Does a state Governor have the authority to nullify a Federal Supreme Court decision? Or is it the legislature’s job?
Well said.
And I like this approach as well. DO NOT GRANT THEIR WRONG DECISIONS ANY RESPECT.
Deliberately undermine them every step of the way.
Yes! Instead, he's doing the typical Republican crap and backing away from those that elected him, already. What a sham!
Bevin is trying to sidestep a conflict over same sex marriage.
I think public officials who don’t want to participate should not be forced to.
Bevin is trying to accommodate that, but will it be enough for those who want gay marriage?
They seem pretty militant and determined to force everyone to go along with them.
I have called the establishment of gay marriage a pathway to tyranny and I am not backing away from that notion.
At some point Matt Bevin and others will show themselves to be defenders of freedom of folks who cave in.
Governor Mike Pence of Indiana and Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas folded quickly under big corporation pressure and backed away from religious freedom laws earlier this year.
The kind of religious freedom law the GOP in those states caved on is the one Kim Davis cited in her defense in court.
You’re calling the governor elect a coward before he takes office. Give him a week or two, he might have something else up his sleeve that he does not want to prepare the leftist mutts for.
Don’t be so nasty till someone deserves it.