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Source: Reuters
Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC
The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday.
"I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday.
"They're not valid in God's eyes, for one," she said of licenses her staff has begun issuing. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license. They did not have my permission, they did not have my authorization."
Davis, 50, has said her Christian beliefs prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was released on the condition that she not interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses.
Davis added that she was prepared to return to jail over the controversy, according to ABC.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-usa-gaymarriage-kentucky-license-idUSKCN0RM1G620150922
randys1
(16,286 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)And I agree with you.
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)talked about her sinful past when she was "still of this world". So, alien?!
She is looney-tooney and needs to be committed to psychiatric care.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Arrest me!!! Please, please arrest meeeeeeeeee!
Whaaaaaaaaa!
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)This is a money grab like the bakery who wouldn't cater a gay wedding. The got more than half a million and closed their doors. She with the Hucksters help will come out fine.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Why does someone breaking federal law have to be in the news day after day after day........................... Her handlers are working overtime.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)We can neither fire, nor fore this contemptuous nut (someone will get this joke)!
if I pulled this crap on my job I'd be out of work in a heartbeat. If we have to make her a martyr, let's make it hurt. Make her an example for the next gen of would be martyrs.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)thanks for pointing out my typo
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)She can be impeached by the legislature. They convene in January.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It's unclear if the will to do this is there.
I say put her in jail and toss the key. No bail. She's already demonstrated contempt.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)And the people who CAN get rid of her actually want to give her a fucking medal.
niyad
(113,552 posts)have not choked on their own venom and bile by now.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)throw away the key and give her martyrdom. Please.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Throw her in jail.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)And let Huckleberry join her.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)No. No, you're not. That's the big problem here. You're refusing to do your job, and you're interfering with other people doing their job. You are actively bad at your job.
As for why she would remain in her position despite the challenges, she said, Im good at my job.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-denied-marriage-licenses-friends/story?id=33939041
If you watch the interview, you see someone who has not got a clue about the separation of church and state, about the secular rights of someone with a slightly (or very) different religious view than her, or about how a person should function in a governmental position. She is pathetic. I feel slightly sorry for her - she's in no way capable of being a county clerk. She should only hold a very junior position where there's someone to tell her exactly what to do. Sadly, she fell into the clutches of religious bigots, and they are now telling her what to do, for their own publicity purposes.
If there were anyone who loved her and who had decent morals of their own, they'd sit her down, and explain how she's being used by unscrupulous politicians, lawyers and pastors who are out for money and power. But she has no-one like that. Her lawyer, sat on her left throughout the interview, is a prime example of the manipulator. I'd love to see an unedited version to see what he said.