The part about the military, WTF does that have to do with the duties of a county clerk?
bolding mine.
It’s her job, one of the key duties of her position, to issue legal documents, like marriage licenses. The people elected her to provide services to the people of Rowan county, and she’s refusing to provide those services, in direct violation of the rights of people in her county.
She’s a regular adulterer in the usual sense (from Czarcasm’s link upthread):
This means she was screwing her future third husband four months before divorcing her first.
Fining her will not work, she’s going to be able to live off the donations that will be pouring in. Ultimately, she has to be relieved of her duties. Perhaps a judge could direct that neighboring counties provide offices in her county to take care of marriage licenses. This cannot be allowed to stand. She put her hand on the Bible to uphold the Constitution, not the other way around.
There is no “customary sentence” for contempt. Contempt is a tool designed to effect compliance with rules and orders of the court, not a punitive measure. It’s not a statutory offense like, say, perjury. The “interested private citizens” are the other parties to the case, so their requests should absolutely be taken into account.
But she says that, as a Christian, she’s forgiven, so it’s good. Not hypocritical at all, in no way undermining her claim to sincerity.
So, I’m just curious. Is it only this issue that has Ms. Davis’s hackles up? What if a group of Jews wants to start a synagogue, or say a group of Muslims wants to start a mosque in her county? Going by her so-called logic, she cannot issue them permits for that because then she’d be agreeing with all of their teachings. What about a restaurant that wants to serve shellfish? What about when someone comes in to apply for a marriage license and that person has been divorced but not for the one stated reason in the New Testament. Oops! I forgot; she doesn’t think that part of the Bible applies.
Look, Kim. You’re not approving or disapproving of anything by issuing a license. You’re not even officiating at the marriage unless you want to and then only if (a) the law permits you to do so, and (b) the applicants request you do so. All you’re doing by issuing a license is certifying to a set of facts; to wit: the applicants meet the requirements under the law to receive said license. Here’s a good example of someone certifying to a fact but without approving of the individual case: I certify you are a hypocrite. I do not approve of you nor of your actions.
Pretty simple. Even a rube like that witch should be able to get it.
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Yes it is.
At least you know how to read a calendar. There is some base level of numeracy there after all.
derpy derpy doo
“No one is free when others are oppressed.”
How’s that?
You’re kidding, right? Especially after my post to The Kink Imbecile, Elvis? Yeesh.
You seem to be under the impression that I in any way do not agree with this. If so, you are mistaken.
I find this quote of hers quite telling:
“I would have to either make a decision to stand or I would have to buckle down and leave,” she said, pondering her choices. “And if I left, resigned or chose to retire, I would have no voice for God’s word." (bolding mine.)
So for her, it’s more than just her beliefs. It’s also evangelizing. Let’s hope she gets defeated quite handily in the next election.
One wonders what other impermissible practices her office engages in if she thinks the purpose of her job is evangelism.
Without her, God is helpless!
She can go evangelize all she wants outside of her responsibilities. But what she is required to do as part of the job she gets paid to do is issue licenses to SS couples.
It seems clear that an earlier poster was correct in saying that she is just trying to expand her celebrity for the lecture circuit or to write a book.
Someone should give her a copy of Milton.
Then punch her in her smarmy face.
Sadly, this has probably guaranteed her a landslide victory.
Kink Imbecile? Is that, like, a guy who puts his ball gag on backwards?
No, the Hood.