Christian Arrested!

[The Mad Monk]

A person's rights (in this instance, being right to one's own religious belief) stop at the point that exercising one's rights would violate or deprive another person their rights.

Davis, the county clerk in one of the counties of the state of Kentucky, cannot use her personal religious belief in violation of secular government constitutional law, to deprive other people their legally protected rights.

Otherwise, this opens up a can of worms. Can a Muslim working as a clerk at an office for driver's licenses, refuse to issue driver's licenses to women, if that Muslim is so conservative/fundamentalist, as to believe that women cannot go anywhere unchaperoned??

Can a pacifist working as a clerk involving registration of gun ownership refuse to process such registration for gun owners if that pacifist believes gun ownership violates his own moral beliefs/values??

Can a devout Christian fundamentalist working as a county clerk refuse to issue a marriage license to an opposite sex couple, whom she personally knows to be atheists, because atheism goes against her religious belief??

A well reasoned answer.

[The Mad Monk]

I thought the judge said he would revisit Davis's sentence in one week? I did not read anywhere, that the judge said she would be in jail until she signs.

I suspect the 'revisiting' will be as follows:

Judge: Will you do your duty, or, as an alternative, resign?
Clerk: No.
Judge: Well okay then, back you go!
Clerk: Rats.

[Uncle Sparky]

If she wants to follow Christ, they could always crucify her...

[Egbert]

So did Nikolai marry Ben or not?

Are Nikolai, and his wife, both DLs of Ben?


:confused now:

[self biased]

My wife has an account here. One account. My wife likes Ben, but she's not like Ben. Truth to be told, she's much prettier.

and lo,

the lowest bar to have ever been set,

sees its genesis.

try harder. Nikolai.

[Egbert]

My wife has an account here. One account. My wife likes Ben, but she's not like Ben. Truth to be told, she's much prettier.

How pretty is Ben ?

[Nikolai]

and lo,

the lowest bar to have ever been set,

sees its genesis.

try harder. Nikolai.

I don't follow?

[Nikolai]

How pretty is Ben ?

He's not my type.

[ricketyclik]

Your wife seems to be an irrational, bigoted, one-eyed zealot. Are you sure BK's not your type?

[Elok]

She seems to have a similar talent for inspiring controversy.

[self biased]

I don't follow?

saying that your wife is prettier than Ben isn't much of a compliment to your wife.

[Elok]

Re: Kim Davis, I understand she recently posted a handwritten letter online comparing herself to MLK and claiming Rosa Parks "had it easy." I believe the woman may be actually deranged. Doesn't rule out the doing-it-for-the-book-money explanation, but it seems uncharitable to make fun of a bona fide lunatic.

EDIT: N/m, it's a fake put up as a troll.

[grumbler]

Kim Davis is hardly the first Christian to be jailed for contempt of court, and will hardly be the last.

Frankly, I wish all of the other big-government types who believe that they can and should use government powers to shove their own personal beliefs down the peoples' throats were in jail alongside her.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

The real news in this post is that Nikolai married Ben!?!

This is the first Apolyton gay marriage, and therefore it should be celebrated!

Congratulations!

[Egbert]

The real news in this post is that Nikolai married Ben!?!

This is the first Apolyton gay marriage, and therefore it should be celebrated!

Congratulations!