Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:46am EDT

Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid: ABC

The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday.

"I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday.

"They're not valid in God's eyes, for one," she said of licenses her staff has begun issuing. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license. They did not have my permission, they did not have my authorization."

Davis, 50, has said her Christian beliefs prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was released on the condition that she not interfere with the issuance of marriage licenses.

Davis added that she was prepared to return to jail over the controversy, according to ABC.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-usa-gaymarriage-kentucky-license-idUSKCN0RM1G620150922

[randys1]

1. She MUST change parties, she MUST get that D off of her name.

[Orrex]

15. She's a Democrat like Zell Miller is a Democrat

And I agree with you.

[LannyDeVaney]

2. Saw her interviewed this morning ...

talked about her sinful past when she was "still of this world". So, alien?!

She is looney-tooney and needs to be committed to psychiatric care.

[lunatica]

3. I WANNA BE A MARTYR!!!!!!

Arrest me!!! Please, please arrest meeeeeeeeee!

Whaaaaaaaaa!

[Tommy2Tone]

13. So I can go to jail and hit the lottery.

This is a money grab like the bakery who wouldn't cater a gay wedding. The got more than half a million and closed their doors. She with the Hucksters help will come out fine.

[get the red out]

4. I am so sick of this woman

Why does someone breaking federal law have to be in the news day after day after day........................... Her handlers are working overtime.

[Tommy2Tone]

21. As we all are and the right loves to talk of Christian bashing.

[demwing]

5. ON EDIT: Oh hell I give up

We can neither fire, nor fore this contemptuous nut (someone will get this joke)!

if I pulled this crap on my job I'd be out of work in a heartbeat. If we have to make her a martyr, let's make it hurt. Make her an example for the next gen of would be martyrs.

[tkmorris]

6. YOU can fore this woman, I ain't gonna

[demwing]

7. corrected

thanks for pointing out my typo

[jberryhill]

8. She's an elected official. There is no one with authority to "fire" her

She can be impeached by the legislature. They convene in January.

[WheelWalker]

9. She's an elected official?

[niyad]

10. she cannot be fired, she is an elected official.

[MADem]

11. She cannot be fired, she's elected. She has to be recalled, I think.

It's unclear if the will to do this is there.

I say put her in jail and toss the key. No bail. She's already demonstrated contempt.

[Iggo]

19. The problem is it's not a job. It's an elective office.

And the people who CAN get rid of her actually want to give her a fucking medal.

[niyad]

12. I am surprised that she, and the other whack job uber-xians who forget this is a secular govt,

have not choked on their own venom and bile by now.

[lunatica]

14. Somebody please give this women what she wants. Arrest her

throw away the key and give her martyrdom. Please.

[nichomachus]

16. Why are we still talking about this horse's ass?

Throw her in jail.

[yellowcanine]

17. WAIT MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME IS NOT UP!

[left-of-center2012]

18. Locker her up

And let Huckleberry join her.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. 'She said, “I’m good at my job.”'

No. No, you're not. That's the big problem here. You're refusing to do your job, and you're interfering with other people doing their job. You are actively bad at your job.

“My constituents elected me. But the main authority that rules my life is the Lord,” she said.

As for why she would remain in her position despite the challenges, she said, “I’m good at my job.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-denied-marriage-licenses-friends/story?id=33939041

If you watch the interview, you see someone who has not got a clue about the separation of church and state, about the secular rights of someone with a slightly (or very) different religious view than her, or about how a person should function in a governmental position. She is pathetic. I feel slightly sorry for her - she's in no way capable of being a county clerk. She should only hold a very junior position where there's someone to tell her exactly what to do. Sadly, she fell into the clutches of religious bigots, and they are now telling her what to do, for their own publicity purposes.

If there were anyone who loved her and who had decent morals of their own, they'd sit her down, and explain how she's being used by unscrupulous politicians, lawyers and pastors who are out for money and power. But she has no-one like that. Her lawyer, sat on her left throughout the interview, is a prime example of the manipulator. I'd love to see an unedited version to see what he said.