Kentucky court clerk....

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Actually the 5 that are willing to do it said they are doing it under protest since they do not want to go to jail or be fined.

Kind of like the reason I don't walk out of BestBuy with a TV without paying? Follow the law, don't get arrested. Although I don't think any of them are under that threat. They are not the county clerk. They would not be in contempt of court.

 

[Hobbes]

I can tell you one thing.

A lot of people will start culling out candidates from now on, who are potential conscientious objectors, for serious consideration for routine government clerical jobs.

They're too high maintenance.

 

[dennishoddy]

This reminds me of a story when a certain group of people left some country to escape religious persecution, to found a country free of such oppression... can someone remind me of what country this is? i'm drawing a blank.

I'm pretty sure you know who it is. They were vilified for doing so too.

 

[Eagle Eye]

I'm pretty sure you know who it is. They were vilified for doing so too.

I do know, I admit I also agree that we are vilified for that reason. Bring it on!

 

[Hobbes]

This reminds me of a story when a certain group of people left some country to escape religious persecution, to found a country free of such oppression... can someone remind me of what country this is? i'm drawing a blank.

Tibetan monks?

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Or be put in jail? Oh wait that only applies to people that disagree because of their religious beliefs. I still can not believe that I, who does not believe in organized religion at all, am one who has to argue for the rights of the religious people.

She's not going to jail for her religious beliefs. She's going to jail for contempt of court. If she resigned, she would be in jail. Going to jail was her choice, and her's alone. Follow the law or resign. She had her "day in court". She lost. It's amazing how fast law and order people are so quick to ignore laws they don't agree with. That's not how it works.

Seriously no matter what the anti-religious bunch here say, this is just beginning and the court cases will go on for years.

You are wrong. The case is settled. The SCOTUS has ruled on the matter, twice. Any suit she files will be dismissed forthwith.

 

[SoonerP226]

Since this was a federal contempt of court charge, I don't think KY criminal code is applicable statute (regardless of her Clerk status). I mean this not to sound snide or like an ass, but just matter-of-fact

No offense taken. I wasn't intending to imply that it applied to what the Federal judge was doing (though I can see how it looked that way), just that it might apply to the situation in general.

 

[Eagle Eye]

Tibetan monks?

I have to check my wardrobe..... nope no orange robes in there....


is this evidence of a global human problem?

 

[farmerbyron]

"Red herring is a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue."

The original issue being forced to do something contrary to her religious beliefs, how exactly is that analogy a red herring?


analogy

noun, plural analogies.
1.
a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based:
the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2.
similarity or comparability:
I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3.
Biology. an analogous relationship.
4.
Linguistics.
the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
a form resulting from such a process.
5.
Logic. a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects

 

[farmerbyron]

I'll throw another analogy out there to put this into perspective.

If this clerk were opposed to interracial marriage based on religious grounds, how many of you think there is no problem with her refusal to do so? See, with the SC ruling that same sex couples cannot be discriminated against lends them the same protection against discrimination as any other group of people. This anti homosexual movement is going to look just as silly as the anti de-segregation movement looks now 40-50 years later.

Interesting little tid bit here but it appears as though this clerk approved a transgender marriage license this past February.


http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Transgender-man--wife-claims-Rowan-Co-clerk-issued-them-marriage-license-323385491.html?device=tablet&c=y