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Related: About this forumWill Clerk Issue Gay Marriage Licenses After Court Ruling?
MOREHEAD, Ky. The Supreme Court ruled against the county clerk who refused to issue gay marriage licenses, leaving her with perhaps her toughest decision yet: Hand out licenses or risk potential fines or even possible jail time.
The moment of truth comes Tuesday morning when Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis opens her office doors. She appears to have run out of legal options after the high court denied her last-ditch appeal late Monday.
Davis has steadfastly refused to issue the licenses, saying her deeply held Christian beliefs don't let her endorse gay marriages. Her attorney said she would pray overnight and understands the consequences either way.
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If Davis continues to turn away couples, they can ask a judge to hold her in contempt of court, which can carry steep fines or jail time.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/01/us/ap-us-gay-marriage-kentucky.html?_r=0
A republican dilemma: bigotry held with firm convictions vs money. What would jesus do?
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Will Clerk Issue Gay Marriage Licenses After Court Ruling? (Original Post)
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
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madamvlb
(495 posts)1. She just turnd down two couples. Saw a tweet.
brush
(53,776 posts)2. Bigotry has consequences.
She has to be found in contempted, fined stiffly and if she still refuses to issue licenses, off to jail with her.
She has to find out the hard way that it's not all about her and her religious bigotry.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)3. She prayed about it last night...
and evidently god told her to keep being a hateful bigot.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)4. Playing Christian Martyr can be expensive!
She'll have to get a job at Hobby Lobby AND Chick-fil-a to pay back all the money wasted on her ego!
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)5. I wonder if she will void her own marriage
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Seeing as she has been married 4 times and at one point was carrying the babies of hubby #3 while being married to hubby #1
But who is gonna worry over minor details like her astonishing hypocrisy?[/font]