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COMMENTS:
* Typical religious "nutcase" jargon! It's not my fault it is someone else's. The KY Governor did not usurp Kentucky marriage laws, they were usurped and invalidated by the highest court of the land. I am so sick of people like this piece of trash always claiming that someone else is to blame. She is not a religious clerk as I can not find anywhere were county clerks are ordained in any way. She is as looney as they come and will eventually fold or she will be voted out of office in a landslide but she will never see the light at all!
* Kim Davis is one of the most selfish, self-righteous, domineering people I have ever heard of. She has illegally "commandeered" the Rowan County Clerk's office & is abusing her employees by forcing them to abide by her twisted religious beliefs. They should all file lawsuits against her for violating THEIR religious beliefs! Why do you assume that Your Beliefs are more important than anyone else's? Shame on you Kim Davis. You give Christians a bad name. I sincerely hope that you are removed as County Clerk & receive the psychiatric help you so desperately need.
* So she blames everyone except herself for not following her oath of office and issuing marriage licenses to whomever she picks and chooses. If she doesn't like the law which requires her to uphold her oath of office she needs to resign. It is the law of the land that gay people can marry and her crusade of hatred towards them has clouded her decision making capabilities. She does not have the right to pick and choose. She is a wicked, hateful woman hiding behind religion.
* Benjamin Franklin pointed to a historical tendency among Christians to persecution: "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here [England] and in New England."
* Kentucky ought to reduce all county clerks salaries to a more appropriate amount and give the difference to school teacher excellence incentive for something like science teacher of the year.
* I have read elsewhere that Dim Kim believes she does her job well. No, Dim Kim, you're not doing your job, well or not. You're not doing your job. Period. She also claims that if she resigns, she loses her "voice." So, Dim Kim likes the notoriety. It's no longer about religion, it's about her moment of fame. How else will someone so lackluster gain any moment in the sun? In reality, Dim Kim likes her cushy paycheck and the power to impose her beliefs on others. She is a bigot and a bully. The sooner the plug is pulled on this one, the better. Now here she is, blaming everyone but herself for the mess she created.
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis blames governor for legal woes
By AP, September 24, 2015
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, hauled to jail for defying a series of federal court orders and refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, filed a 40-page court document Thursday, blaming Kentucky governor Steve Beshear for all her legal woes.
The day the Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage in June, Beshear sent a letter to the state's 120 county clerks directing them to issue licenses. Davis on Thursday complained that in doing so he "commandeered" county clerk's offices and "usurped control of Kentucky marriage law."
Davis stopped issuing licenses altogether. Four couples sued Davis, elected clerk as a Democrat, and she filed a counter-suit against Beshear, also a Democrat, alleging that his refusal to exempt religious clerks from authorizing same-sex marriage violated her right to religious freedom.
Meanwhile, Davis continued to refuse court orders and U.S. District Judge David Bunning found her in contempt earlier this month and ordered her to jail for five days, propelling her to folk hero status among some on the religious right. Davis made the rounds on television news shows this week, pledging to continue her fight against gay marriage.
Shortly after the Supreme Court's ruling, she and a handful of other clerks asked the governor to call the legislature in for a special session to find a way to accommodate religious conviction. But the governor refused. He told the clerks to either issue licenses or resign.
"The courts and the voters will deal appropriately with the rest," the governor said.
Davis' lawyers with the Liberty Counsel, a firm that opposes gay rights, wrote Thursday that warning was "ominous" and suggested that Beshear's directive for clerks to abide by the Supreme Court's decision forced Davis to defy the court and wind up in jail.
Beshear has asked a judge to dismiss the suit against him.
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