A Message To Kentucky Clerks Likely Trying To Become Rich Off Bigotry: #GoFundYourself
August 28, 2015 By Allen Clifton
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If you ask me, this is all just one giant scam by these clerks hoping to get rich off bigotry. They have absolutely no legal leg on which to stand when it comes to this issue. The Supreme Court ruled that these bans violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights of Americans – case closed. Yes, it really is just that simple.
So, one could ask, why not just quit? These clerks are government employees, not religious figures. They’re not there to carry out their duties based upon their religious beliefs. They’re elected to do a job as instructed to them by the government. And while they’re state employees, state governments cannot violate Constitutional law. Therefore, as government employees, they are required to abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage.
Via CBS News:
Davis has said she will not resign. She can only be removed from office if the state legislature impeaches her, which is unlikely. If she continues to defy a federal court order, a judge could hold her in contempt and order hefty fines or jail time.
Of course these people don’t want to resign - they want to be removed from office or even thrown in jail for defying a federal court order. They want to become famous for standing firm against gay marriage. And why wouldn’t they? There’s a lot of money to be conned out of ignorant Americans made by becoming a famous bigot.
Who recalls the owners of Memories Pizza who became famous after they were the first business in Indiana to deny service to gay citizens under the state’s new anti-LGBT laws (before the laws were amended to prevent discrimination against homosexuals)? After their story went national, a GoFundMe campaign was started that currently sits at $844,397. Yes, these bigoted con artists made nearly a million dollars from this scam.
Then there was Arlene’s Flowers, a florists who refused to make floral arrangements for gay weddings. She managed to raise around $174,000 before GoFundMe shut her campaign down.
Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a bakery in Oregon that refused to make cakes for same-sex weddings, raised about $109,000 in just nine hours before eventually having their scam campaign shutdown as well. This has been a growing trend over the last year or two where bigots are now making themselves famous, seemingly with the goal to “strike it rich” through online fundraisers that often raise huge sums of money.
Thankfully, the website GoFundMe has put in new rules to ban campaigns linked to discrimination. There are still ways around GoFundMe’s new rules (though the website has proven that it’s fairly quick to address concerns over questionable campaigns), plus there are other fundraising websites people can use.
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/message-kentucky-clerks-likely-trying-become-rich-off-bigotry-gofundyourself/?
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