Posted on 01/02/2024 9:47:22 PM PST by daniel1212
The former Kentucky clerk who refused to grant a gay couple a marriage license must pay an additional $260,104 to the couple, a federal judge ruled last week.
David Ermold and David Moore sued former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in 2015 after she declined to issue the couple a marriage license because doing so would violate “God’s definition of marriage” and her religious beliefs as a Christian.
The additional fees Davis must pay are on top of the $100,000 in damages she was ordered to pay Ermold and Moore in September after losing the lawsuit the couple brought.
Davis’s legal team argued that the proposed attorneys’ fees put forward by the couple’s lawyers were too much, saying that the fees should be reduced by more than 50 percent. U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning sided with the couple and awarded them $246,026.40 in attorneys’ fees and $14,058.30 in expenses, according to court documents published last week.
Bunning said that the couple’s requested attorneys’ fees were “reasonable” in his order.
David L. Bunning, a Smirking Chimp stooge.
And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the Court has created a problem that only it can fix. Until then, Obergefell will continue to have “ruinous consequences for religious liberty.”
576 U. S., at 734 (THOMAS, J., dissenting).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-926_5hdk.pdf
She was hired and paid to do a job -- as County Clerk she was hired and paid to issue licenses, etc. If she found she could not perform that job in good conscience, she should have quit. Quietly and privately, or loudly and publicly, whichever she wished.
But simply refusing to do the job she was hired and paid to do, she risked having The System come down on her like a ton of bricks. And it certainly has done so.
So while I sympathize with her position and plight, AND suspect that this whole shebang was a "gotcha" setup from the start, I would have counseled her to quit right then and there, and fight the battle in a situation where she had a chance of winning. Instead she took a stand, and now has paid dearly for doing so. She is a martyr, not a victor. And I find that saddening.
Former Kentucky clerk [ Kim Davis] in gay marriage case must pay additional $260K ( on top of the $100,000 in damages she was ordered to pay),
File bankruptcy on their queer asses!
This is nothing but judicious persecution.
Has she no resources of defense at all?
They may as well ship her off to the J6 Gulag; another misuse of the legal system few elected officials are fighting against. Pray for Kim.Lady Liberty must still be in a coma.
This self righteous lady is a big phony. IIRC, her mother held the clerk’s position for 30 years. And she’s been married like 3 times.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinned exceedingly against the Lord.
What’s her stand on marriage?? She’s been married 3 times.
If she quit due to being confronted with the marriage license then they still could've went after here. In any case, this is an abomination, with Robert's creativity being rightly condemned by Scalia
In Obergefell v. Hodges Justice Scalia stated that the majority's Equal Protection analysis was “quite frankly, difficult to follow" and “fails to provide even a single sentence explaining how the Equal Protection Clause supplies independent weight for its position." " The ruling was nothing more than a "naked judicial claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government." "A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy." - http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
A nation that sanctions abomination is under condemnation and headed for damnation. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalms 9:17)
Yes
And had two children out of wedlock. She’s just a big phony.
in many peoples’ opinion, the Obama court illegally amended the Constitution in its order to states to license same sex marriage against reason and common sense, and against both state and federal law and court precedent. Licensing is a form of regulation. Courts cannot order states to license something without any underlying law and reason. Courts in the past have struck down laws as unconstitutional, eg, law banning abortion, but in this case, the court did not strike down any law, they changed the regulation and the reasons behind it. If marriage is everything, then it is nothing. Can the courts argue that because old people get Medicare and Social Security, then everybody has to get Medicare and SS , aka, equal protection? What if a conservative court argued “equal protection” in tax rates and imposed a flat tax.....or else decided that lawmakers have to treat BIG business and SMALL business the same under the law? Liberals won’t like that! The reason for licensing marriage was to regulate sexuality by discourging promiscuity & homosexuality while promoting and institutionalizing heterosexual monogamy, because it is important to know or be reasonably certain that the husbands of the wives also were fathers of the children......and unwed mothers did not have protection of a marriage contract or standing to sue for paternity. There was no reason for the state to license same sex marriage because homosexuality was considered intrinsically disorder behavior not to be promoted or encouraged, but discouraged by exclusion. If courts believe that heterosexuality and homosexuality in couplings deserve the same treatment, there remedy should have been to strike down marriage licensing as unconstitutional, not to illegal amend the Constitution to change the regulation and its purpose. After all, what is the government interest in licensing serial marriages and no fault divorces? Better to have no marriage licensing than licensing serial marriage and homosexual mariage, which serves no purpose that is good? The miscreant Obama court could not and did not even address the fact of marriage law promoting “couplings” of people. Why should government license couplings and not groups? and just because the law licensing opposite sex couplings is not reason or right for the court to order states to license discriminatory same sex couplings. After all.....opposite sex marriages promote diversity, whereas same sex marriages promote sameness. One can understand why this woman would be fired, but no sued. The couple was no damaged .....but the rogue Obama court damaged human civilization
So, you’d not condone a soldier who took an oath who walked away from the battlefield because all of a sudden found himself to be a contentious objector? Everyday someone is fired from a job because they refused to do something that within their responsibilities. Belief or not, if you refuse to complete something you are paid and were hired/appointed to do then said employer has every right to can you on the spot. As the poster said, she should have resigned now she is learning the hard way.
The miscreants persecuting Mrs. Davis need milestones placed around their necks and then they need to be thrown into the sea 🌊.
It breaks my heart to have to say, I agree with you completely.
As a Nation, if we are to survive, we have to turn away from the decay and decadence that have overtaken America in the last 60 years. We have to seek God, and beg His forgiveness and mercy, in whatever way we can do so honestly and sincerely.
Most of all we have to turn this great ship of state around before it is completely aground.
I am 72 now, and probably will not live long enough to see America's fate play out -- I may only get to witness further decline. But I pray that my daughter gets to see the reversal and return to the virtues and principles of the Founders, who knew and clearly stated that our Constitutional Republic required that its people be "moral and religious" (in the words of John Adams).
God willing, this can be done.
Davis has been married four times to three husbands.[19][195] The first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008...After her mother announced she would not run for re-election in 2014, Davis filed as a Democratic candidate for county clerk.[10] At a candidates' forum, Davis stated she felt she was best qualified for the position because of her 26 years of experience in the clerk's office.[11]
Davis says she experienced a religious awakening in 2011, following her mother-in-law's dying wish that she attend church. She worships three times a week[199] at the Solid Rock Apostolic Church near Morehead.[14][200] Following her conversion, Davis let her hair grow long, stopped wearing makeup and jewelry, and began wearing skirts and dresses that fall below the knee, in keeping with Apostolic Pentecostal tenets regarding outward holiness and modest dress.[98][200] She also held a weekly Bible study for female inmates at the local jail.[14][200] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis#Personal_lifeMeaning that what one does before they become a Christian defines their character forever, and a conservative is to be scorned if they had moral failures in the past, regardless of evidence of fidelity after, and the ongoing wrath of the Left, as well as trashing by souls as yourself. Shoot your own if it befits you?
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