[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

"International court’s attack on Israel a sign of the free world’s moral collapse"

"Pete Hegseth Is Right for the DOD"

"Why Our Constitution Secures Liberty, Not Democracy"

Woodworking and Construction Hacks

"CNN: Reporters Were Crying and Hugging in the Hallways After Learning of Matt Gaetz's AG Nomination"

"NEW: Democrat Officials Move to Steal the Senate Race in Pennsylvania, Admit to Breaking the Law"

"Pete Hegseth Is a Disruptive Choice for Secretary of Defense. That’s a Good Thing"

Katie Britt will vote with the McConnell machine

Battle for Senate leader heats up — Hit pieces coming from Thune and Cornyn.

After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning

Vivek Ramaswamy, Dark-horse Secretary of State Candidate

Megyn Kelly has a message for Democrats. Wait for the ending.

Trump to choose Tom Homan as his “Border Czar”

"Trump Shows Demography Isn’t Destiny"

"Democrats Get a Wake-Up Call about How Unpopular Their Agenda Really Is"

Live Election Map with ticker shows every winner.

Megyn Kelly Joins Trump at His Final PA Rally of 2024 and Explains Why She's Supporting Him

South Carolina Lawmaker at Trump Rally Highlights Story of 3-Year-Old Maddie Hines, Killed by Illegal Alien

GOP Demands Biden, Harris Launch Probe into Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Grayson Davis

Previously-Deported Illegal Charged With Killing Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nurse in Horror DUI Crash

New Data on Migrant Crime Rates Raises Eyebrows, Alarms

Thousands of 'potentially fraudulent voter registration applications' Uncovered, Stopped in Pennsylvania

Michigan Will Count Ballot of Chinese National Charged with Voting Illegally

"It Did Occur" - Kentucky County Clerk Confirms Voting Booth 'Glitch'' Shifted Trump Votes To Kamala

Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'wholeheartedly' Endorses Donald Trump

Liberal Icon Naomi Wolf Endorses Trump: 'He's Being More Inclusive'

(Washed Up Has Been) Singer Joni Mitchell Screams 'F*** Trump' at Hollywood Bowl

"Analysis: The Final State of the Presidential Race"

He’ll, You Pieces of Garbage

The Future of Warfare -- No more martyrdom!

"Kamala’s Inane Talking Points"

"The Harris Campaign Is Testament to the Toxicity of Woke Politics"

Easy Drywall Patch

Israel Preparing NEW Iran Strike? Iran Vows “Unimaginable” Response | Watchman Newscast

In Logansport, Indiana, Kids are Being Pushed Out of Schools After Migrants Swelled County’s Population by 30%: "Everybody else is falling behind"

Exclusive — Bernie Moreno: We Spend $110,000 Per Illegal Migrant Per Year, More than Twice What ‘the Average American Makes’

Florida County: 41 of 45 People Arrested for Looting after Hurricanes Helene and Milton are Noncitizens

Presidential race: Is a Split Ticket the only Answer?

hurricanes and heat waves are Worse

'Backbone of Iran's missile industry' destroyed by IAF strikes on Islamic Republic

Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump

IDF raids Hezbollah Radwan Forces underground bases, discovers massive cache of weapons

Gallant: ‘After we strike in Iran,’ the world will understand all of our training

The Atlantic Hit Piece On Trump Is A Psy-Op To Justify Post-Election Violence If Harris Loses

Six Al Jazeera journalists are Hamas, PIJ terrorists

Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general

Iran's Assassination Program in Europe: Europe Goes Back to Sleep

Susan Olsen says Brady Bunch revival was cancelled because she’s MAGA.

Foreign Invaders crisis cost $150B in 2023, forcing some areas to cut police and fire services: report

Israel kills head of Hezbollah Intelligence.


Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

United States News
See other United States News Articles

Title: Kentucky clerk still won't issue same-sex marriage licenses
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2015-09-01-08-52-48
Published: Sep 1, 2015
Author: Claire Valofaro
Post Date: 2015-09-01 10:04:38 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 35970
Comments: 339

A county clerk in Kentucky has again refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, invoking her religious beliefs and "God's authority" - this time in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against her.

On Tuesday morning, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' office denied the licenses to at least two couples. At first, Davis was in her office with the door closed and blinds drawn. But she emerged a few minutes later, telling the couples and the activists gathered there that her office is continuing to deny the licenses "under God's authority."

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in the case, leaving Davis no legal grounds to refuse to grant the licenses. A district judge could now hold her in contempt of court, which can carry steep fines or jail time. As an elected official, Davis can't be fired.

Davis asked David Moore and David Ermold to leave her office after they were denied a license Tuesday morning - the couple's fourth rejection. They refused, surrounded by reporters and cameras.

"We're not leaving until we have a license," Ermold said.

"Then you're going to have a long day," Davis told him.

From the back of the room, Davis' supporters said: "Praise the Lord! ... Stand your ground."

Other activists shouted that Davis is a bigot and told her: "Do your job."

Davis has said her deeply held Christian beliefs don't let her endorse gay marriages.

She stopped issuing all marriage licenses in the days after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the nation. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her, arguing that she must fulfill her duties as an elected official despite her personal religious faith. A federal judge ordered her to issue the licenses, and an appeals court upheld that decision. Her lawyers with the Liberty Counsel filed a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking that they grant her "asylum for her conscience."

Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees the 6th district, referred Davis' request to the full court, which denied the stay without comment.

After Tuesday's denials, the rejected couples' supporters called the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on their behalf. They asked that the attorneys file that day to have Davis held in contempt.

Shortly after Davis' remarks in her office, the sheriff's office cleared the room and building of those gathered to support both sides of the issue.

The two groups lined up on the lawn, on either side of the courthouse entrance to chant at each other. Davis' supporters have told her to "stand firm," while gay-rights activists shouted "do your job."

Randy Smith, leading the group supporting Davis, said he knows following their instruction to "stand firm" might mean Davis goes to jail.

"But at the end of the day, we have to stand before God, which has higher authority than the Supreme Court," he said.

Ermold hugged Moore, his partner of 17 years, and they cried and swayed as they left the clerk's office. Davis' supporters marched by, chanting.

"I feel sad, I feel devastated," Ermold said. "I feel like I've been humiliated on such a national level, I can't even comprehend it." (1 image)

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

Comments (1-148) not displayed.
      .
      .
      .

#149. To: nolu chan, GrandIsland (#140)

Only Davis has the authority. The deputies cannot act unless Davis delegates to them the authority to do so.

Here is a link to Duties of Elected County Otticials published by the Legislative Research Commission of the State of Kentucky.

It states that the source of all power of the Counties and county offices exist and operate only under auhtority delegated by the state. One of the required officers of counties in Kentucky is the County Clerk. The County Clerk cannot make up the rules of his/her duties and responsibilities. Perhaps you know the legal basis for how the Clerk can prevent the Deputy Clerks for conducting the legal business of the Office which authority is delegated to the Clerk's Office by the state?

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-03   23:37:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#150. To: GrandIsland, nolu chan (#148)

What does this clerk do when she's on vacation, calls in sick or is away from the office, delicate authority before she leaves and recinds it when she returns a few thousand times a year?

That is how many government offices and private corporations work. There must be an official delegation of authority, either statutory or via bylaws or the equivalent, to cover absences of the normally apapropriately delegated person for the conduct of business to be valid. These things are not left to chance.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-03   23:40:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#151. To: GrandIsland (#148)

What does this clerk do when she's on vacation, calls in sick or is away from the office, delicate authority before she leaves and recinds it when she returns a few thousand times a year?

There have been NO licenses being issued since the SCOTUS decision. Not same sex or opposite sex. None whatever. It appears the deputies lack authority. Possibly Davis revoked any delegation of authority, if it existed.

The misconduct at this time is not performing the duties of the office. If she were to issue opposite sex licenses and not same sex licenses, then she might be charged with a crime.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-03   23:42:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#152. To: SOSO, GrandIsland (#149)

Perhaps you know the legal basis for how the Clerk can prevent the Deputy Clerks for conducting the legal business of the Office which authority is delegated to the Clerk's Office by the state?

Deputies get their authority by delegation from the elected official. The authority is delegated to the elected official, not the general office. If she does not grant, or withdraws delegation of authority, they do not have it. The office has been issuing NO licenses whatever since the SCOTUS decision.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-03   23:47:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#153. To: SOSO (#150)

That is how many government offices and private corporations work. There must be an official delegation of authority, either statutory or via bylaws or the equivalent, to cover absences of the normally apapropriately delegated person for the conduct of business to be valid. These things are not left to chance.

That's my understanding. I'm thinking her deputy clerk and the other clerks decided to stand behind their boss and unite... off the record.

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-09-03   23:49:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#154. To: nolu chan (#147)

Doesn't that depend on the County's regulations and/or bylaws or equivalent?

I believe only she holds the elected authority......

She holds the elected office. She does not own the authority delegated to the office by the state, that belongs to the office not the individual to do with as she pleases. She is clearly refusing to personally execise the authority delegated to the office by the state based on her personal religious beliefs. I find it difficult to believe that she can legally prevent her deputies from exercising the authority of the office, especially in her absence.

I am sure that there is controlling law on this subject.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-03   23:50:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#155. To: SOSO, GrandIsland (#150)

There must be an official delegation of authority, either statutory or via bylaws or the equivalent, to cover absences of the normally apapropriately delegated person for the conduct of business to be valid.

Authorizing her subordinate a license with her name on it raises the same moral question, and she has declined. Non-elected officials can be fired or suspended and replaced. I don't think the state is fighting what she is doing. Think of this politically if she remains in jail for a few months or more.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-03   23:52:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#156. To: nolu chan, GrandIsland (#152)

The authority is delegated to the elected official, not the general office.

I believe that you are wrong (see post 149). This is the link to the pdf www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/ib114.pdf.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-03   23:53:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#157. To: GrandIsland (#153)

I'm thinking her deputy clerk and the other clerks decided to stand behind their boss and unite... off the record.

Cops have no clear guiding principal other than a doughnut & Kup o' Koffe. 'Tis kinda kool to see you vacillating your earlier comments into the "unknown zone."

buckeroo  posted on  2015-09-03   23:54:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#158. To: SOSO (#154)

She does not own the authority delegated to the office by the state, that belongs to the office not the individual to do with as she pleases.

It belongs to an elected individual and cannot just be bestowed to an unelected official not holding the office of County Clerk. She can prevent her deputies from exercising the authority of her elected office of County Clerk by not delegating her authority to them, or by revoking an existing delegation of authority. Davis is the County Clerk and nobody else. The governor could recall congress and impeach her tomorrow, if they chose to do so.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-03   23:58:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#159. To: buckeroo (#157)

I'm not flip flopping on anything... I merely point out the things you're to ignorant to think on your own... from both sides.

I haven't even stated my opinion on this... other than I don't feel bad for the faggots. I know you and Commie Sanders feels bad for the faggots.

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-09-04   0:03:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#160. To: nolu chan (#155)

Authorizing her subordinate a license with her name on it raises the same moral question, and she has declined. Non-elected officials can be fired or suspended and replaced. I don't think the state is fighting what she is doing. Think of this politically if she remains in jail for a few months or more.

Then why would the deputies agree to issue the licenses if she has declined to do so? She would be a hypocrite if she had the ability to prevent her deputies from issuing license and didn't use it. It doesn't matter if the state is not fighting what she is doing, these are precedent setting events which will have many unintended consequences for the state one way or the other.

Read page 74 of the link I provided, Liability For Deputies (of the Office of Clerk).

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-04   0:06:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#161. To: nolu chan (#158)

It belongs to an elected individual and cannot just be bestowed to an unelected official not holding the office of County Clerk.

Please read the link that I provided you, especially page 74.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-04   0:07:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#162. To: SOSO (#156)

I believe that you are wrong (see post 149).

The authority belongs to Kim Davis as the elected County Clerk. No deputy has any authority except as delegated by Kim Davis, the County Clerk. The authority is not given to the county clerk's office, it is given to the County Clerk, the elected official. Then the elected official can delegate the authority to subordinates. Or not.

She has a job to do. She is not doing it. She claims a new obligation (issuance of same sex marriage licenses) violates her faith based moral convictions.

The Feds can order such licenses be issued, but cannot issue them, and cannot force her to issue them, but can penalize her for refusing to issue them. So, she sits in jail.

As long as she chooses to sit in jail, and the state does not act to remove her from office, one may view a big middle finger going from Kentucky to Washington, D.C.

If it goes on for a few months, what does the Fed do? Can they order the state to call a special session of the state congress?

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   0:14:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#163. To: nolu chan (#162)

If it goes on for a few months, what does the Fed do?

If the duputies issue the licenses as they appear to have agreed to do, then the Fed doesn't have to do anything at all - other than perhaps give Davis the finger as she rots in jail. This is not a win situation for her, even if the state is passively on her side.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-04   0:37:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#164. To: SOSO (#161)

Please read the link that I provided you, especially page 74.

www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/ib114.pdf

Duties of Elected County Officials
Information Bulletin No. 114

Legislative Research Commission
Frankfort, KY
August 2014

At 53:

Chapter 5

County Clerk

Kentucky’s Constitution of 1850 was the first to mention the office of county court clerk, providing for a clerk’s election in each county for a term of 4 years (Art. VI, sec. 1). The current constitution requires the election of a county court clerk in each county for a term of 4 years (Ky. Const., sec. 99). Before the institution of the unified state court system, the county court clerk served as the clerk of the juvenile, county, and quarterly courts. Since the time when the District Court replaced these courts, the clerk has no longer had judicial duties, and the name of the office has been abbreviated to county clerk to more accurately reflect the nature of the office. The duties of the county clerk fall into the general categories of clerical duties of the fiscal court: issuing and registering, recording and keeping various legal records, registering and purging voter rolls, conducting election duties, and conducting tax duties.

At 74:

Liability For Deputies

KRS 62.210 makes the office of the county clerk, rather than the individual officeholder, liable for the acts or omissions of deputy clerks. A deputy is liable to the clerk for damages and costs for any acts or omissions discharged by the clerk.

Black's Law Dictionary

Deputy. A substitute; a person duly authorized by an officer to exercise some or all of the functions pertaining to the office, in the place and stead of the latter. One appointed to substitute for another with power to act for him in his name or behalf. A substitute for another and is empowered to act for him in his name and behalf in all matters in which principal may act. Williams v. Ferrentino, Fla.App., 199 So.2d 504, 511.

I see nothing relevant regarding the liability for the deputies. The office of the county clerk is liable, and not the County Clerk personally, for damages due to the acts or omissions of the deputies. The County Clerk defines what acts the deputies are authorized and obligated to discharge. If she does not authorize her deputies to issue marriage licenses, and they do not issue marriage licenses, they are not liable for any omission by non-performance.

The deputies derive their authority by being duty authorized by an officer, in this case the County Clerk, to exercise some or all of the functions pertaining to the office, in this case the office of the County Clerk.

Davis has chosen to not authorize her deputies to issue marriage licenses. Without her authorization, they do not have authorization. She was elected by the people and authorized by the people to exercise the duties of the office of County Clerk.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   0:45:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#165. To: nolu chan (#162)

I'm thinking the sodomite couple would have found a different jurisdiction to get a license if a Muslim or Jew refused them.

This was direct action against a known target.

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”"---Isaiah 40:8

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-04   0:48:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#166. To: SOSO (#163)

If the duputies issue the licenses as they appear to have agreed to do

Without a delegation of authority by the County Clerk, the deputies have no lawful authority to issue the licenses in the name of the Clerk.

The deputies stated they would. The court offered to set Davis free if she would delegate her authority and do nothing to interfere with the deputies issuing licenses. Davis refused. That's why she remains in jail tonight. And why there will be no licenses issued tomorrow, unless Davis changes her mind.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   0:49:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#167. To: redleghunter (#165)

I'm thinking the sodomite couple would have found a different jurisdiction to get a license if a Muslim or Jew refused them.

Of course, if getting married was their priority, they would go to a clerk who would issue them a license.

And I'm thinking KY authorities are in support of Davis and are in no hurry to do anything. Think Andrew Jackson. The Supreme Court made its decision. Now let them enforce it. Impeachment certainly won't begin until the KY congress is called back into session.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   0:53:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#168. To: sneakypete, tpaine, Vicomte13, redleghunter, Liberator, Don, Stoner, A K A Stone, Justified, SOSO (#116)

This,like marriage itself,is a STATE issue,not a federal issue. It would be a federal issue if the state legislature or Governor decided to bar marriage between homosexuals,but this is just a case of a state employee violating her oath of office because any homosexuals who were refused a marriage license by her were free to go to the next town and get one.

I have no idea of violating your oath of office is a crime that rates jail time in that state or not,but I think it is irrelevant because I suspect the state is going to satisfy itself to drop that hot potato by just removing her from office and maybe giving her some sort of suspended sentence.

You know I would think that when she took her oath of office she swore to do so with one hand on the Bible and said "So help me God". Which I would think also means she is supposed to support all the covenants that God put forth. (And we all know what the Bible says about homos, it's been discussed many times before on multiple forums). So it would seem to me that she is doing what she took an oath to do when she took office and the Feds are trying to make her break it.

You know I'm curious as to how many of those feds also took their oath of office by swearing on a Bible? And are knowingly violating that oath? Sounds like it's the Feds who need to be thrown in jail not her, especially the judge and the persons pulling his strings! Also those in the USSC for violating theirs by allowing homo marriage in the first place. Which is as we all know is a political issue not a Constitutional one!!!

“Let me see which pig "DON'T" I want to vote for, the one with or without lipstick??" Hmmmmm...

CZ82  posted on  2015-09-04   6:58:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#169. To: tpaine (#146)

Trouble is, whether it's Shakespeare or Claire Wolf, it's easy to talk about killing, but when it comes down to it, very few are willing to actually do that (thank God).

Tell that to the millions of men that have died in America's wars, defending our freedoms.

Thanks for displaying your true stripe once again, vicomte. It's refreshing to see a man tell the honest truth about himself, despite the fact that it is repugnant..

He still hasn't learned that there is a difference between France and America...

“Let me see which pig "DON'T" I want to vote for, the one with or without lipstick??" Hmmmmm...

CZ82  posted on  2015-09-04   7:04:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#170. To: CZ82 (#168)

DELETED Pedophile propaganda. Stay off the faggot threads Peter.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-09-04   7:19:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#171. To: sneakypete (#170)

If she did so,she was lying because she was swearing to God to obey the laws she was taking office to administer.

Faggot marriage isn't a law. It's an usurption.

Now stay the fuck off these threads. We don't need you spreading your pedophile philisophy.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-09-04   7:57:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#172. To: Jameson (#37)

Kim Davis - thrice divorced, is invoking "her" religious beliefs....

What would be the reaction if she were Muslim?

What a circus.

Hey stupid. She was divorced before she became a christian. So take your faggot talking points and shove them up Petes ass.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-09-04   8:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#173. To: nolu chan (#147)

What prevents these gays from simply going to the next county and getting a license. Or, having a lawyer draw up an agreement where they will have inheritance rights, etc?

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Stoner  posted on  2015-09-04   8:06:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#174. To: nolu chan (#162)

" As long as she chooses to sit in jail, and the state does not act to remove her from office, one may view a big middle finger going from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. "

It would appear. About time some state did so! Hopefully encourage some others to do so as well!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Stoner  posted on  2015-09-04   8:16:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#175. To: CZ82 (#168)

You know I would think that when she took her oath of office she swore to do so with one hand on the Bible and said "So help me God". Which I would think also means she is supposed to support all the covenants that God put forth. (And we all know what the Bible says about homos, it's been discussed many times before on multiple forums). So it would seem to me that she is doing what she took an oath to do when she took office and the Feds are trying to make her break it.

You know I'm curious as to how many of those feds also took their oath of office by swearing on a Bible? And are knowingly violating that oath? Sounds like it's the Feds who need to be thrown in jail not her, especially the judge and the persons pulling his strings! Also those in the USSC for violating theirs by allowing homo marriage in the first place. Which is as we all know is a political issue not a Constitutional one!!!

A very interesting perspective.

I believe the use of a Bible to take an oath stemmed from the traditions of earthly and Divine witness. Not every President, for example, used a Bible when they took their oath of office.

Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when taking the oath in 1901. Barack Obama, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, and Richard Nixon (also a Quaker) swore the oath on two Bibles. John Quincy Adams swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution.

Seems it has always been optional given the wide historical examples above. Which makes sense in a society which does not impose religion on a person, but is supposed to respect those religious convictions based on the very Constitution government officials take an oath to defend and uphold.

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”"---Isaiah 40:8

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-04   8:58:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#176. To: Vicomte13 (#137)

" people are apt to suffer wrongs as long as they're sufferable. "

True.

However, if the time comes that those wrongs are no longer sufferable, it will be a different game. And those that have dished out the wrongs, will be in for a shocking surprise.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Stoner  posted on  2015-09-04   9:06:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#177. To: CZ82 (#168)

Funny thing about swearing oaths on the Bible... In that Bible Jesus commands Christians to never swear oaths.

So, swearing an oath on the Bible is either an ignorant and embarrassing act, or it's giving God the finger.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   9:34:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#178. To: tpaine (#146)

Tell that to the millions of men that have died in America's wars, defending our freedoms.

The men who died to get the WMD in Iraq, or who died in Somalia, or who died in Vietnam, or in Korea, were "defending America's freedoms"? From whom?

In World War I, America declared war on Germany and sent troops to Europe to invade Germany. Germany was not attacking America's freedoms.

In the Spanish-American War, America invaded Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and then stayed and fought a guerilla in the Philippines that cost thousands of American lives. The Filipinos were not threatening America's freedoms. Neither were the Cubans or the Spanish.

In the Indian Wars on the Great Plains, America was invading other people's land and taking away their freedoms. The Sioux were not threatening American freedoms anywhere - they were resisting American invasion and suppression of THEIR freedoms.

In the Civil War, which side was fighting for American freedoms? Was it the South, with 40% of its population chained slaves? No? Well, was it the North then? Was the North the great champion of American freedom in the Civil War? Or was the North just fighting to preserve the supremacy of the government. A million people died in that war. Who died for "America's Freedoms"? And freedom FROM whom? Americans?

In the War of 1812, the Americans declared war and then invaded Canada and lost. America went to war to grab somebody else's land, and the Americans DID drive out the Creeks from their own lands. American Freedoms were not the issue in 1812, unless by that we mean the alleged "freedom" of America to conquer other people and take their land.

And now we're back to the American Revolution, in which some Americans fought other Americans and the British in order to break away and establish a new government. The French ALSO fought and died in the American War of Independence. In fact, without French arms and munitions, and the French Navy and French Army, the Americans would have lost their war of Independence.

So, when we look back over American history, we find TWO wars in which Americans were actually fighting for freedom: the American Revolution and World War II. And in both of THOSE wars French men were ALSO fighting and dying for freedom, for the exact same cause.

So no, there is nothing exceptional about American soldiers getting killed in a bunch of imperial wars for American expansion and power, and no, those wars were not about American freedom. The Revolution and World War II were about American freedom, and the French fought and died in those wars too.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   10:02:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#179. To: CZ82 (#169)

He still hasn't learned that there is a difference between France and America...

Not all that much. Both are democracies. Both had revolutions. Both are middle-class Republics. Both have been allies in the two great struggles for American freedom: the American Revolution and World War II.

Pretty tough for me to distinguish anything but cultural differences between France and America. And even the cultural differences are not all that different. The languages are a bit different, but quite close in concept and vocabulary. None of this is terribly surprising: France and England come out of the same people, and America came out of England.

French bread is generally better than American bread.

So yes, there are differences between France and America. No, they don't count for much.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   10:07:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#180. To: SOSO (#163)

I see this morning that one of the clerks has issue a license. I have seen no report of how the clerk was authorized to do so, or if he had the authority, why no licenses were issued for the past month or so.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   10:13:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#181. To: Stoner (#176)

However, if the time comes that those wrongs are no longer sufferable, it will be a different game. And those that have dished out the wrongs, will be in for a shocking surprise.

That already is happening in places like Ferguson.

It's never going to happen in white America.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   10:15:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#182. To: nolu chan (#180)

I have seen no report of how the clerk was authorized to do so, or if he had the authority

He has the authority because nobody will stop him and the courts will recognize the acts, because of the actions of the Clerk in jail.

When it comes to American law, might makes right.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   10:16:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#183. To: nolu chan (#180)

see this morning that one of the clerks has issue a license. I have seen no report of how the clerk was authorized to do so, or if he had the authority, why no licenses were issued for the past month or so.

Obviously there is more to the story than we can know.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-09-04   10:28:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#184. To: Vicomte13 (#182)

He has the authority because nobody will stop him and the courts will recognize the acts, because of the actions of the Clerk in jail.

If there was no lawful delegation of authority, the happy couples(s) could find the purported marriage challenged later in Kentucky court.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-09-04   10:32:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#185. To: A K A Stone (#172)

She was divorced before she became a christian.

That is my understanding as well.

Ephesians 4:

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Now, in the eyes of the Father our past sins are forgiven and washed clean as the Father now looks on the Born of the Spirit Christian and sees His Son Jesus Christ and His Righteousness. But the sins and failures of our past do have temporal (earthly) consequences and challenges. The sin is forgiven and forgotten by God. However, let's say man was married had an affair and got another woman pregnant. She has the child. That man still has the temporal challenges and consequences of the affair with regards to his marriage and also the responsibility to provide for the child conceived and born in adultery.

Sin forgiven for the repentant sinner coming to Christ. The consequences of sin in this earthly life remain with us. Good example from the Bible is King David's adultery with Bathsheba and his murder of her husband Uriah. David and Bathsheba suffered the temporal consequences of their sin, yet God quickly forgave them.

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”"---Isaiah 40:8

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-04   10:35:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#186. To: Stoner (#173)

What prevents these gays from simply going to the next county and getting a license.

Absolutely nothing. Just as a doctor can be an OB GYN and refuse to perform abortions and tubal ligation surgery. Women who want these procedures go to another doctor.

Just as the Walmart pharmacy where I once lived in OK had a big sign saying "we do not fill birth control prescriptions." Women who wanted such prescriptions filled went to the CVS across the street.

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”"---Isaiah 40:8

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-04   10:39:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#187. To: sneakypete (#170)

I managed to read your reply before it got "ZOTTED" and I think today's man is presumptuous in believing his laws out weigh Gods laws, I also think the Founding Fathers did too. Without them realizing it way back then the world would be a much "schittier" place.

“Let me see which pig "DON'T" I want to vote for, the one with or without lipstick??" Hmmmmm...

CZ82  posted on  2015-09-04   10:42:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#188. To: nolu chan (#184)

If there was no lawful delegation of authority, the happy couples(s) could find the purported marriage challenged later in Kentucky court.

And the ones bringing the challenge will be slapped down by said courts, and may have civil penalties imposed on plaintiffs, and professional sanctions on the lawyers.

The issue of gay marriage is stare decisis. We are now in the phase that we were in the 1960s, with one Southern redneck after another walking into court to get guillotined. The decision has been made, and now the courts and law enforcement will enforce it, with rigor, and with a punitive mindset, to break the resistance and put fear into those who would resist.

We have a long history of breaking resistance in America, and that experience will be brought to bear here.

The proper place to fight this is for Christians to look back at what they are SUPPOSED to be doing, reform themselves and their churches to bring it perfectly in line (so that there can be no argument).

Then Christians will find themselves remarkably free and remarkably cohesive, and relatively quite rich, and exclusive. And then they can act in very Christian ways that are so advantageous that those left outside will scream "unfair!" but there will be no access other than conversion.

You disempower the state by being perfect, according to your own declared moral standards. Then nothing else matters, and the state and its petty laws and obsessions really become nothing.

Or, if the state becomes too oppressive, you shuck off one country and move to another. The world belongs to God, and the whole thing belongs to God's people. Local tribes think they own it because they have put an arbitrary boundary by force. They're wrong. They only have what they can hold, and pagans are weak for money and pleasure and power, so they can always be divided among themselves.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-09-04   10:46:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#189. To: nolu chan (#180)

I see this morning that one of the clerks has issue a license. I have seen no report of how the clerk was authorized to do so, or if he had the authority, why no licenses were issued for the past month or so.

Is it a possibility another state or county official with the same authority delegated said authority?

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”"---Isaiah 40:8

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-04   10:47:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



      .
      .
      .

Comments (190 - 339) not displayed.

TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Please report web page problems, questions and comments to webmaster@libertysflame.com