By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor
Kentucky was faced with another case of drama and failure to perform statutory duties and the federal courts. The Casey County Clerk announced that he would refuse to issue marriage licenses to couples who’s marriage he objects to.
The clerk, in a bit of irony, is named Casey Davis.
Davis insists that he has a duty to himself to violate state law but oddly he feels the Commonwealth should pay for an attorney to represent him.
Kentucky governor Steve Beshear in July granted an audience with Mr. Davis and thereafter ordered him to issue licenses to all couples regardless of their gender or resign. Defiantly, the county clerk stated, “I’m going to trust the Lord with all my heart, my position remains.”
Governor Beshear issued the following statement:
“This morning, I advised Mr. Davis that I respect his right to his own personal beliefs regarding same-sex marriages,” the Governor’s statement reads. “However, when he was elected, he took a constitutional oath to uphold the United States Constitution. According to the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution now requires that governmental officials in Kentucky and elsewhere must recognize same-sex marriages as valid and allow them to take place. One of Mr. Davis’ duties as county court clerk is to issue marriage licenses, and the Supreme Court now says that the United States Constitution requires those marriage licenses to be issued regardless of gender. Mr. Davis’ own county attorney has advised him that his oath requires him to do so.”
Here is a video of Mr. Davis speaking before supporters:
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John smith
Which U.S. Constitutional Amendment carves out which religion decides law?
John smith,
Which U.S. Constitutional Amendment carves out MAN/WOMAN marriages ONLY?
John smith
“I don’t hate gays at all. I do think that homosexual unions don’t deserve the same level of sanction as hereterosexual ones…”
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That’s like the bus driver who said, “I don’t hate blacks. I let them on my bus. I just think they don’t deserve to sit in the front like the white folks…”
HumpinDog and Betty Lou Thelma Liz had a very similar problem in their home state. The local Clerk would not issue a marriage license between a female human and a male dog. The Clerk would not articulate which of the two that he objected to. So, they went to Cuba and got legally married. Their marriage was not some Communist marriage. It should be recognized in the United States. The couple is traveling to this County in Kentucky to await the return of Clerk Kim and are going on national tv when they are either accepted or rejected. They want to remarry in KY and have their marriage recognized in that state and live here. Betty Lou Thelma Liz has a home in KY. We hope that Kim Davis will do her job and recognize HumpinDog and Betty Lou Thelma Liz as husband and wife.
Jefferson was not a Christian. He was a deist which is a half assed way of saying, something like an agnostic, or maybe somebody that has believes in the “anima mundi” that the stoics refered to long ago.
John smith,
Why is it necessary for you to cite other religions just to throw LGBT under your bus?
Yes stupid rednecks have been befuddled into thinking there is a “war on Christendom” or some other farcical thing. That is a conservative lie. American revolution and the French revolution destroyed what was left of “Christendom” that had already been deeply divided by the schism and reformation.
Yes stupid rednecks want to volunteer to die with a mouthful of sand for capitalism too, they think its for apple pie. That’s why the Zionists pay for all these congressional junkets for republican legislators who are busy rounding up the Christian sheeple for them.
What are our middle est wars about? O I L. O for oil, I for Israel, and l for logistics. According to the real American hero, Ray McGovern.
I don’t hate gays at all. I do think that homosexual unions don’t deserve the same level of sanction as hereterosexual ones, and I am with plato on that one. The west has tolerated the tiny homosexual minority in each generation just fine for thousands of years. I could really care less if gays agree with me or not on that point, if they are well educated enough they will know and understand. I actually do have some gay aquaintances that completely understand this.
John smith,
To say hospitality is like a spit in the eye… Character, sir. Great character.
Even greater character is to insist that we sit still while you spit.
Thank you.
Maxi, get real, gays were not oppressed here, its one of the most hospitable places on earth for gays and your “stonewall” incident was a long time ago.
And I don’t stop anybody from anything and gays could get “married” before all these stupid laws, just like Mormon fundamentalists can go out now in their churches and take private vows all they want. Nobody was stopping gays from anything. Gays were less oppressed than polygamists, that’s my view. Lets get a few million more Muslims here and that one will go by the wayside too, but the gays will face a new adversary far less charitable than the CHristians you mock!
This was about gays getting the same tax breaks and other legal perks etc that non gays did. That was inducement for gays. What did the plutocracy get out of it? More peasants fighting with each other over piddly stuff, more families getting fractured, religious folks getting smacked back farther into place, mostly.
Gays are beholden to the plutocracy and they are now serving as the vanguard activist of global capitalism. The peasants and proles don’t really care too much about socalled gay rights one way or another. But it helps keep forces opposed to global capitalism off balance, that all communitarian resistance is demolished, from churches, to nations, to ethnic groups, right on down to the level of nuclear family.
You’re just a patsy of international finance buddy.
John smith
A lot of those rednecks in that fly over land think we’re in Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria, etc. fighting against MUSLIMS… and protecting the HOMELAND from MUSLIMS and SHARIA LAW. You know, preserving jesusland here at home…
I heard the armed farces are going to let in flagrant homosexuals now. That is good, because they are going to need them, as the gullible rednecks like Chris Kyle get picked off once they’re done with duty, and the saner rednecks like Jesse Ventura “abjure the realm’ and start seeing through the system.
Not that Jesse is even Christian, I think he’s agnostic, and probably not against Gay marriage. But he sees through most of the lies and he is a new breed of former veteran that is growing by the thousands all the time as they come home from sandbox and wake up and smell the coffee about what a lousy racket this place has become.
John smith
It is curious, tough… To understand what YOU get from keeping gay folks from marriage.
I mean, what do you get from keeping people less than equal to yourself?
FYI,
Kimmy D fits into the latter section of the NYTimes article I just posted.
Sex outside of marriage…. CHECK.
Children conceived outside of wedlock… CHECK.
Life, by Kimmy D’s buybull, is bloody… Stones covered in blood.
I look forward to the day when all the white, Christian, religious, conservative rednecks in flyover land decide to hell with this government, and they stop manning all the petty county offices, they stop paying taxes, and they stop volunteering to go fight these stupid capitalist wars of aggression in the middle east. They need to start acting like Amish and just let the federal leviathan run out of gas and collapse.
The homosexual destroyers of marriage can talk themselves in all the pretzels they want, we all know it is foolish to sanction homosexual partnerships at the level of normal ones. Oh bigot bigot wah wah. The democratic will of America was against it, and the anti-democratic federal judiciary has its way based on the fourteenth amendment.
It aint the first time. Let’s cue a song
http://www.civilwarhome.com/pooroldrebel.html
“O, I’m a good old Rebel,
Now that’s just what I am,
For this “Fair Land of Freedom”
I do not care at all;
I’m glad I fit against it —
I only wish we’d won,
And I don’t want no pardon
For anything I done.
I hates the Constitution,
This Great Republic too,
I hates the Freedman’s Buro,
In uniforms of blue;
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brags and fuss,
The lyin’, thievin’ Yankees,
I hates ’em wuss and wuss.
I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence too;
I hates the glorious Union —
‘Tis dripping with our blood —
I hates their striped banner,
I fit it all I could.
I followed old mass’ Robert
For four year, near about,
Got wounded in three places
And starved at Pint Lookout;
I cotch the rheumatism
A campin’ in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees,
I’d like to kill some mo’.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us;
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot,
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.
I can’t take up my musket
And fight ’em now no more,
But I ain’t going to love ’em,
Now that is sarten sure;
And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am,
I won’t be reconstructed
And I don’t care a damn.”
G.O.P. Anti-Gay Bigotry Threatens First Amendment
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/gop-anti-gay-bigotry-threatens-first-amendment.html
Davidm
“marriage is nothing more than two people who have “found love and romance” agreeing to stay together”
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That, Sir, is a modern construct.
Sell your daughter for two sheeps and a goat, if you can.
Prove your point by living YOUR standards.
There is a hypocrisy in the First Amendment that goes right back to Jefferson and his insurrectionist cronies. The “established religion” of America is nothing. Except, is a secular state truly possible? There must always be legitimizing norms at the root of the national mythology. our Mythology and our religion of state is “secular humanism.” Or, maybe just “secular capitalism.” Ie, worshipping Mammon and denying all that is immaterial. The atheists etc are right about his. America is not founded on religious principles. It is founded on anti-religious principles, right from the start. It’s time for conservatives to start recognizing the American state was anti-Christian when they rebelled against “Defensor Fidelis” the King, and it is anti-Christian today as it foments a civil war against the friend and protector of Arab Christians, Assad of Syria, and brings the nutjob Isis terrorists into power.
So we have a secular tyranny with blackrobed judicial proclaimers that has imposed these pro-homosexual edicts in place of democratic law.
Abjure the realm! It does not deserve our affection. Maybe its time for Christians to stop participating and begin building the foundations for what comes next when this house of cards collapses.
Davidm,
Procreation argument pablum…
Then: Where are the laws outlawing infertile couples their marriage licenses?
Then: Where are the laws outlawing elders the ability to marry?
There is no such movement bent on keeping “PROCREATION” as an element of marriage. If there was, then where is the argument found against elders and the infertile from you? THEY can not procreate. THEY can not foster a new family. THEY do not fit into your ideology. WHY are they absent from your PROCREATION argument pablum?
Max-1 wrote: “Then: Where are the laws outlawing infertile couples their marriage licenses?
Then: Where are the laws outlawing elders the ability to marry?”
We allow some latitude because often we do not know for sure about fertility. Men 100 years old have produced children. However, I would favor laws restricting such to marry before I would support Same Sex Unions being treated as marriage. Such is like calling black white.