Ky. Clerk Won't Have To Issue Gay Marriage Licenses While Case Goes To Appeals Court
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) A Kentucky county clerk who objects to same-sex marriage will not have to issue marriage licenses while she takes her case to a federal appeals court.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is being sued by two gay couples. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis last week to issue the licenses despite her objections.
On Monday, he granted her request to stay his decision while she pursues her case before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Davis has refused to grant marriage licenses to anyone in Rowan County since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kim-davis-rowan-county-gay-marriage-stay
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)into personal bankruptcy as well as losing her job.
Bottom feeding bigot can then go on the wingnut welfare circuit.
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)in a civil rights case does indeed get attorney fees paid. And the damage award is often levied personally on the defendant.
Considering what a slam dunk the case is, you will likely see your wish granted.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)After she loses they'll be a Gofundme campaign, and crybaby fundraising letters, co-signed by Mike Huckabee.
Her benefactors will take of her.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)She should have either done her job or quit out of contempt for the supremacy of law.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)She has been married 4 times
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)DUzy!
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)More lawyers! More hearings! More pre-trial motions! More appeals!
if I lived in that county I would refuse to pay my property taxes until there is compliance.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Will she issue marriage license to those who have coveted thy neighbor or committed adultery or out of marriage sexual acts?
eggplant
(3,911 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)has any kind of objection to that.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)...
Chat outside the courthouse among the protesters says that Ms. Davis, the County Clerk, is on her fourth marriage, though nobody thinks that diminishes her faith. Her mother held the post for some years; her son serves as her assistant. Thats not mean, angry conversation. Its a headshake from people who know her and are sorry it has come to this. (The same chat says at least one employee is gay, and so the county may be looking at a hostile work environment.)
A 9 July 2015 report from Lexington station WKYT on David Moores video noted the rumor that Kim Davis had herself been married four times and stated that her marriage certificate(s) confirmed that fact:
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Read more at http://m.snopes.com/kim-davis-married-four-times/#ipQlMcmLk4DZ7tUk.99
I would prefer they replace her with someone else. Even if she would, I wouldn't want her a part of anything I do.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)she is unable to perform her duties - she needs to find another job where bigotry is just A-OK
Botany
(70,524 posts)My 2 cents.
Just because somemebody believes in a diety that does not give them the right to act
as that diety and tell other people on how to live their lives.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)This.
niyad
(113,420 posts)Botany
(70,524 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Because once she looses her job, on to Fox News.
the word is lose, not loose.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)JeaneRaye
(402 posts)She's not doing her job. Fire her.
niyad
(113,420 posts)azureblue
(2,148 posts)Gives marriage licenses to people who eat pork and shellfish, and people that (like herself) have committed adultery by multiple marriages. Hasn't she read her Bible?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)you know the ones where they cut out all that crap about love thy neighbor stuff that Jesus talks about.
rurallib
(62,429 posts)Boy I would be pissed if our county clerk refused to do her job and then wanted the citizens to pay her legal bills because she refused to follow the law.
I would be working on a recall petition right now.
niyad
(113,420 posts)Picking Dem
(106 posts)and further, must put $250,000 in an escrow account to guarantee payment.
niyad
(113,420 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)A government official refusing to perform official duties based on her personal religious beliefs both respects an establishment of religion, specifically whatever hard-right cult Kim Davis belongs to, and prohibits the free exercise of any religion that doesn't bar same-sex marriage.
I'm certain the fundamentalist law firm that's representing her will use Hobby Lobby as precedent, but the plaintiff in that case was a private business. Private businesses can have any religious beliefs they want; the Rowan County Clerk's Office is not a private business and is therefore required to be inclusive. I'm fairly sure Mrs. Davis would issue a marriage license to a white man marrying a non-white woman, even though the Bible plainly says not to mix the races. (For those keeping score, this was Maurice Bessenger's excuse when he tried to defend his barbecue joints' "we don't feed n*****s" policy.)
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,513 posts)she's an elected official, and therefore:
Clerk to continue to deny marriage licenses to gays
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Davis faces fines and a possible jail sentence for contempt of court if she loses the lawsuit, but she can only be impeached from her $80,000 a year job by the state legislature, and lawmakers wont reconvene until January.