Fuck the law. My religious right trump your rights

[Jimmy Higgins]

Kentucky is offering America an interesting take on contempt of American Law. A Clerk who is supposed to issue marriage licenses as part of the job has refused to issue them to gay couples and in an attempt to pretend she is being fair, has stopped issuing any of them... because that type of defense worked in Loving v Virginia (it didn't).

So we have SCOTUS which finally recognized gay marriage as a right/privilege and this Clerk who seems to think her individual religious rights trump the federally protected rights of a gay couple. Which she'd be right if she were part of a church and not a secular government.

She was directed to issue the licenses by a District Court Judge, but she has asked for that be stayed so she can appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of appeals which if they are wise will bring her in, smack her, and tell her to issue the damn licenses.

It seems odd that some people are deluded enough to think "Freedom of Religion" equates being able to have your own power to declare Religious Edicts if you are serving within Government.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

That way, the people can get their marriage licences and she can make some cash on the right wing talkshow circuit telling everyone how wonderfully oppressed she is for Jesus.

Everybody wins.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

That way, the people can get their marriage licences and she can make some cash on the right wing talkshow circuit telling everyone how wonderfully oppressed she is for Jesus.

Apparently, this office isn't alone is not issuing any licenses. There are apparently dozens of them across the south who are trying to avoid issuing gay marriage licenses (as if it is a different license to begin with). They are trying to get out of issuing any marriage license.

 

[untermensche]

Yes. I always thought religious freedom simply meant you could freely worship any religion.

I never saw it as meaning you had the right to inflict your beliefs on others.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

That way, the people can get their marriage licences and she can make some cash on the right wing talkshow circuit telling everyone how wonderfully oppressed she is for Jesus.

Apparently, this office isn't alone is not issuing any licenses. There are apparently dozens of them across the south who are trying to avoid issuing gay marriage licenses (as if it is a different license to begin with). They are trying to get out of issuing any marriage license.

Well, the death throes of bigotted and oppressive positions are never pretty.

 

[funinspace]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

That way, the people can get their marriage licences and she can make some cash on the right wing talkshow circuit telling everyone how wonderfully oppressed she is for Jesus.

Apparently, this office isn't alone is not issuing any licenses. There are apparently dozens of them across the south who are trying to avoid issuing gay marriage licenses (as if it is a different license to begin with). They are trying to get out of issuing any marriage license.

Yep, and right wing religious groups are backing some of the legal costs for the fights. This is similar to what happened with the 1960's civil rights issues and inter-racial marriage rulings. It will take a couple years to beat it down the heads of the neanderthals, that they can't ignore SC rulings.

The funny part about this ladies religious sniveling is that she has had 3 divorces, and if I remember correctly she initiated at least 2 of the divorces. A very selective reading she has of her holy book...

 

[dismal]

Well, the important thing is that they stop these people who want to wear headscarves when the workplace policy doesn't allow it.

 

[untermensche]

Of course we should support any capricious "workplace policy".

They are arrived at by democratic means after all.

 

[credoconsolans]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

That way, the people can get their marriage licences and she can make some cash on the right wing talkshow circuit telling everyone how wonderfully oppressed she is for Jesus.

Everybody wins.

Her position is an elected one.

She is defying a court order, which should lead to her being charged with contempt and either fined or imprisoned. And once that happens, since she is now a lawbreaker and has broken her oath of office, can now lead to impeachment to remove her from office.

All of this would play into the "Christian martyr" role I'm sure she and her supporters believe they are and which will make great headlines.

Most of the rest of the country has nothing but contempt for the 4-times married religious hypocrite.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

How is that not a "You're not doing your job so you're fired" type of activity?

Basically this.

"Sue the government on your own time, lady. Until then, clean out your desk and I'll see you... never."