Kentucky Clerk Who Defied Judge's Gay Marriage Order Asks For Delay
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) A Kentucky clerk who defied a federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses and turned away four gay couples has until Monday to convince the judge to delay his mandate.
U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning rejected Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' claim that her Christian faith should exempt her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and ordered her on Wednesday to hand out the licenses. But her office kept denying them.
As the attorneys for gay and straight couples seeking a license warned they could request that she be held in contempt, Bunning ordered Davis to submit a final plea to stay his decision by Monday.
The fight in this eastern Kentucky college town began soon after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in June. Davis was among a handful of clerks across the country to cite her Christian beliefs and declare she would no longer hand out licenses to any couples, gay or straight.
Legal experts have likened the case to the resistance some local officials in the South put up five decades ago after the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,164 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,245 posts)He is too busy running away from past deeds of his own.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...different crops in the same field.
brooklynite
(94,911 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,443 posts)Hey that would be popular
Just like an irrevocable trust
Put some teeth in those Christian vows
yardwork
(61,748 posts)Oops. Make that four divorces. All by herself.
How many times is she an adulterer, according to Jesus? (Not that I'm judging.)
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)atreides1
(16,103 posts)I don't think she can just be fired...if it was that easy she'd be in the unemployment line, now!
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Thanks!
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)she needs to taking tax payer funds is she cannot or will not do her job.
valerief
(53,235 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)have a chance. There's a lot of crap swimming around in the mind of an individual such as she.
valerief
(53,235 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)not place her on a pulpit to preach her brand of religion.
4lbs
(6,866 posts)As county clerk I am responsible for providing many services to the people of Rowan county. These duties include general categories of clerical duties of the fiscal court: issuing and registering, recording and keeping various legal records, registering and purging voter rolls, and conducting election duties and tax duties.
Our office is here to serve the public in a friendly, professional and efficient manner. We are constantly striving to upgrade our services in order to better serve you. This website is our most recent attempt to better serve the people of Rowan county. Here you will find contact information, important forms and documents, land and legal records, and much more. Feel free to contact us via phone or fax during business hours, or use our convenient contact form and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Kim Davis
Rowan County Clerk
SO.... friendly, professional, and efficient. As long as you aren't gay.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)biases, and hence unfit to serve. She should quit or be fired.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)if she doesn't, she must be removed and replaced with someone who will perform.
carla
(553 posts)Because if they do, she must now, logically, avoid issuing building permits to gays as well. They might build a house and turn it into a home....the stupid has always been strong in fundies.
BruceStern
(13 posts)Because she's said "till death do us part" 4 x.
Wonder what the Bible says about divorce?
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)You can get lots of enjoyment out of one but when you take it out and wave it around in public or try to shove it down someone else's throat, then you've got a sick problem.
I'm waiting for a federal judge to throw one of these righteous religious cooks into jail for contempt. If they can't do the job, then quit. That's what I've always been told.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)Her religious beliefs obviously don't forbid taking LGBT money -- only providing the services those taxpayers are paying her for.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)not to mention the legal consequences for defying court orders.
What a jerk.
niyad
(113,776 posts)irisblue
(33,047 posts)homophobic fool
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)cummins67
(1 post)We are all human beings and should have the right to love and marry whomever we want. Who are we to play God and deny these rights to our fellow human beings? I seriously hope she is held in contempt.