OMG! Kentucky has lost its mind over Kim Davis!

[Stonepounder]

Now the President of the KY Senate, a Republican, is calling on Judge Brunner to delay enforcing his ruing until the Legislature can meet and pass a special law giving Kim Davis special dispensation to NOT issue Marriage Licences to same sex couples.

http://news.yahoo.com/kentucky-clerk-gets-help-gop-state-senate-president-230909529.html

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican president of the Kentucky state Senate has asked a federal judge to withhold his ruling ordering a county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Republican Senate President Robert Stivers says U.S. District Judge David Bunning needs to give the state legislature time to pass a law that would exempt Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis from having to issue marriage licenses. The state legislature is not in session and won't be until January. Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has refused to call for a special session, arguing it would waste taxpayer money for an issue that only affects one clerk.

"The Supreme Court ruling has completely obliterated the definition of marriage and the process for obtaining a marriage license in Kentucky," Stivers said in a news release. "The General Assembly will be compelled to amend many sections of Kentucky law, not just for the issuance of marriage licenses, to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision."

I freaking live in Kentucky and I am embarrassed! Note that the Democrat Governor of Kentucky has refused to call for a special session of the legislature. And now we are trying to somehow morph an argument that Davis makes based on her religious beliefs into an argument based on legal wording.

Oh, poor Kentucky, we have to change the wording on all these laws that say that a marriage must be applied for in the county that the female lives, but if we have two men applying for a marriage license we don't have a female, so clerks don't know what to do. How stupid do they think we are? Oh, I forgot, Faux mews et all. (I meant to type News there, but decided the typo was kind of appropriate so let it stand.)

[PatrickforO]

1. Ah, the 'Christians!' Those scamps!

Maybe Rowan County is the next Selma?

[kcdoug1]

3. always asking for special right's!

[yuiyoshida]

56. Ya'know she calls herself a Democrat..

I hope once out of jail, she changes parties... we really don't need her help!

[teach me everything]

2. Bunning will overturn that dispensation as a blatant violation of the Constitution

[BlueJazz]

4. It truly is embarrassing to not just the people of Kentucky but also the...

...non-insane people of the world.

[shenmue]

5. Duhhhhhh

Fuckin' idiots.

[Stonepounder]

6. Just as a completely irrelevant side note....

Judge David Bunning is the son of Baseball Hall of Famer and U.S. Senator Jim Bunning. Both of them went to the same High School that my wife attended. Just a little small-world trivia.

[TSIAS]

7. I saw a meme the other day

It was a sign reading something like "I'm sorry my gay marriage hurts the sanctity of your 4th marriage".

[peacebird]

26. Don't forget her apparent adultery. Got pregnant with her 3rd hubby while married to her 1st

If that doesn't show complete respect for the sanctity of marriage I don't know what does!

[d_r]

32. Jesus says those remarriages

are all adultery

[WinkyDink]

35. Where?

[whatthehey]

43. Matt 5:32

[d_r]

58. Mark 10:12

is probably the clearest.

[lpbk2713]

8. Ninety years ago and a different state.

But this is starting to remind me so much of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

The PTB are making a circus out of it.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. "Democrat Governor"

MmmHmmm

[Stonepounder]

10. OK, guess y'all don't understand.

KY has more registered Dems than Repugs. We have a Democrat Gov, Dem Lt. Gov, and Dem AG. Yes, the legislature is R, due to Gerrymandering. Gov Basher is pretty good. A somewhat conservative Dem, but still solidly Dem. He met with Davis and told her, "Do your job or quit." He has refused to call a special session of the legislature to 'consider the bill to exempt Davis'. Yes, KY was one of the states bringing suit against gay marriage, but only because the legislature pushed them into it. The AG refused to actively persue it because he said it was "A waste of taxpayer money".

So, don't tar all of Ky with the 'dumb hillbilly' brush. Yeah, we got a lot of them, but we have a lot of Dems and Progressives as well.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. I think the objection was to "Democrat" as an adjective

That's a usage made up by the Republicans.

[PowerToThePeople]

16. Shhhh

Don't give away the tells.

[Stonepounder]

33. The two major parties in the US are "Republican" and "Democrat"

So, a person who runs as a Democrat and wins say, the governorship, is a Democrat Governor, just as a Republican would be a Republican Governor. We have a Democratic form of government (not really, it is a Representative form of government, but that is a discussion for a different thread.)

[WinkyDink]

36. NO. You are 100% wrong on both scores. You have a DemocratIC governor. We live in a SMALL-d demo-

cratic society.

Please do not try to lecture us here on the word "Democrat."

[Chan790]

37. No.

The two major parties in the US are "Republican" and "Democratic."

Democrat governor is as incorrect as Republic governor would be.

The singular nouns are Democrat and Republican.
The plural nouns are Democrats and Republicans.
The adjectives are Democratic and Republican.

"Democrat" is a noun, not an adjective.

Using nouns as adjectives is the surest mark of a person with a poor grasp on the English language.

[WinkyDink]

38. Or of a Republican. ;-)

[Chan790]

40. I think the two are fully inclusive.

That is, all Republicans have a demonstrably-poor grasp of the English language.

[Stonepounder]

57. OK, it was late I made a boo-boo.

It should have been Democratic Gov, not Democrat Gov, and I misread my wikipedia when I checked the official name of the political parties. However, for you to imply that I have a 'poor grasp of the English language' marks you as a person who thinks way too much of yourself and way too little of others.

[Divernan]

19. Stinky, if someone asked you, "Are you a Democrat or a Republican?"

Would you answer, "I'm a Democratic."??? Of course not. Sometimes, yes, sometimes, the correct word is "Democrat." And in this case, based on the overall tenor and general thrust of the post you question, the poster is obviously a Democrat and not a troll.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Nothing is "obvious" . . . . .

[Stonepounder]

34. Yes, I have been a liberal Dem since I was too young to vote.

And still am liberal enough to be somewhere to the left of Bernie. And old enough to have been involved in Vietnam protests, being tear gasses at Ohio State after the Kent State shootings, marched and worked voter registration drives during the civil rights movement. So, I ain't no damn troll.

[DavidDvorkin]

42. Great. So please don't adopt a usage invented by Republicans and intended as a slur.

[DemocraticWing]

45. Ignore the haters.

They'd rather play semantics and call you stupid than discuss the issues or the Democratic Party at large. You're clearly not a troll.

Lots of trolls here with many thousands of posts. Often not right-wing nutjob trolls, but trolls nonetheless.

[WinkyDink]

39. Noun = Democrat. Party and Adjective = Democratic. Why, in 2015, is this harder to grasp than pre-

Ronald Reagan?

[Chan790]

41. The decline of the quality of education in the post-NCLB classroom? n/t

[thecrow]

59. Didn't this all start around the time that

we had a pretzeldent who made "nooculer" a word and everyone was shaking in their boots because they couldn't correct his grammar??

[WinkyDink]

61. Not quite. It really isn't a grammar issue so much as a propaganda one. Hence, my allusion to Reagan

[stopbush]

11. Federal law trumps state law.

Any law Ky passes wil run afoul of Fed law.

[Orrex]

23. I suspect that this is their goal

They want to run afoul of Fed law, so that they can grouse about states' rights and the tyrannical guv'mint. They'd love to keep this in the news so that they can paint themselves as beleagured Christian martyrs for the faith.

[spanone]

12. the feds need to step in and inform these bigoted ignoramuses how our govt works

[lakercub]

14. Needs to?

He NEEDS TO give them time to change the law?!?! Bullshit. He needs to do know such thing.

She needs to do her damn job or resign.

[meow2u3]

22. If she doesn't resign, can she be recalled or impeached?

An ever better question is, will she be recalled or impeached?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

48. Maybe that county's clerk office will run just as well as if not better

with her indefinitely detained (though I imagine that she will eventually resign)

[pnwmom]

15. The other stupidity is that all the wording on documents must change anyway

no matter what happens to the attention-seeker, what's-her-name. All the other County Clerks will be using the new forms.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Memo to fundamentalist fuckwads: grow up, already, people.

Waaaah! Gay people are getting married! waaaaah! Wot'll we do??

Seriously. Grow up.

[beam me up scottie]

18. Unfortunately she's not the only one.

Clerks in 13 other counties are also defying the order.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

[Orrex]

21. Our fine nation is a beacon for the world

Shine on, Kentucky, Shine on.

[Orrex]

20. They want to pass a law to pay her for not doing her job?

Nice work, if you can get it.

[onethatcares]

24. a state with one of the

largest outbreaks of heroin addiction, HIV and AIDS should have other things to be concerned about in my opinion.

This bullshit of divide and conquer seems to really work.

[Trajan]

27. Doesn't the refusal of the United States Supreme Court

to hear her appeal supersede and invalidate efforts at the state level to provide relief to her?

Not a lawyer here ...

[RKP5637]

30. One would think so. This clerk doesn't make the laws, she's a paperwork administrator and paid

IMO a pretty hefty salary.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. This Guy Is Publically Stating He Wants To End Run the Constitution?

That seems a dereliction of his sworn oath and would appear to constitute malfeasance.

This guy hasn't be dumber than dirt.

[B Calm]

29. Kim Davis would make a great SNL skit, bring back Church Lady!

[RKP5637]

31. It all boils down to religious oneupmanship. She is special because she has beliefs

from an imaginary being and ancient rambling texts. And as usual, is quite egotistically selfish and self centered, really to appoint herself above all others with her sense of divine superiority over others. She belongs nowhere near the position she holds, unfit to serve in a public office, unfit to perform the duties of her employment.

[Generic Other]

44. She probably thought she'd get a Hobby Lobby ruling out of the SCOTUS

Here's the checklist I use to interpret what Christian values means. It comes from the Sermon on the Mount. Supposedly in his own words: Christ blessed people who were lost spiritually; he blessed the meek who must bend their backs to others; he blessed those who were sad; blessed those with a social conscience who sought justice; those who showed compassion, mercy, charity toward others; those with pure hearts; and he blessed peacemakers. He did not tell people to throw stones at others -- not gays, not non-believers, not even women who were thrice divorced and had not always been pure of heart. He did say look to your own sins before casting judgment on others.

This is the problem I have with so many Christians. They can't read.

For the most part, I suspect that the Christians on DU do try to follow his teachings. But even non-believers like me can see that his words do not apply to the actions of the CINO (Christian in name only) in Kentucky.

[reddread]

46. what mind?

quick, somebody have a basketball game or something so they can have a good clean fun riot.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

47. The legislature can't do that

not for Davis, not for anybody. SCOTUS ruled that same-sex marriage is equally legally. Government officials can't be allowed to refuse same-sex marriage licenses.

[Vinca]

49. Wouldn't this involve a Constitutional amendment?

If Kentucky cooks up such a law I would think the whole state would be in contempt.

[dembotoz]

50. Get ready to see her face all over hell and creation

GOP will use her to drum up cah and votes against those godless sodomites ( using ther e language not mine)

[TBF]

51. What about the Supreme Court Decision do they not understand? nt

[Rex]

52. Repukes prove daily that they do not understand the laws of the land or how to govern properly

THEY SUCK, they flat out SUCK at pretty much everything a human can do.

[kelliekat44]

60. No, they prove every day that they DO NOT CARE about the laws of the land. nt

[kcdoug1]

53. hummm

makes me wonder why God isn't intervening in this.................OH, that's right!!! he doesn't exist...

[yellowcanine]

54. Stivers can yammer all day long, he has no standing in Federal Court.

Stuff it Stivers.

[Blue Owl]

55. The mind really is a prison...

n/t