Kentucky clerk denying marriage license to gay couple ordered to court - Let's play a game

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...y-marriage-licenses-clerk-20150901-story.html

A county clerk in Kentucky who invoked "God's authority" Tuesday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage has been summoned by a federal judge to explain why she should not be fined or jailed for contempt.

The district judge is obviously going to find her in contempt of court.

The game:

What's the penalty going to be ?

Jail, imo, is not going to help.

Too high a fine with be ignored (it get to the point where it's laughable)

I'm thinking $1,000 a day retroactive to Monday.

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Good for her for standing for what is right rather than what is popular.

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This woman wanting to impose her version of Sharia Law has no place in the government of these United States.

You can bet if it were a Muslim clerk denying marriage licences to Christians, she'd be first in line at the courthouse petitioning for that clerks removal... especially when she likes to get "Christian Married" so often herself.
 
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Good for her for standing for what is right rather than what is popular.

When the NAZIs took over the civil service during the Nazification of Germany between 1930-1933 they routinely refused to enforce administrative laws to various racial and cultural minorities with whom they had disagreements.

The NAZIs were able to stop enforcing the laws of the German Republic while controlling only 15% of the civil service positions. In the US currently about 96% of all civil servants are Christians.
 
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How about garnishing her bank account and freezing all of her assets until she succumbs to the decision handed down on her by the Supreme Court?

And maybe she should go to jail, she would have a lot less opportunities to religiously discriminate or else it wouldn't be as tolerated in jail if she did.

She could have her fourth husband and maybe her three ex-husbands visit her while she's in jail. She could even preach on preserving the sanctity of marriage to all the prisoners while she's in there, oh wait... it might look bad for her once the word gets out that she's in her fourth marriage and no one will want to listen to her. Never mind.
 
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This woman wanting to impose her version of Sharia Law has no place in the government of these United States.
That is an absurd statement. Perhaps reading up on what Sharia Law entails would help you not to make the mistake again.
 
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When the NAZIs took over the civil service during the Nazification of Germany between 1930-1933 they routinely refused to enforce administrative laws to various racial and cultural minorities with whom they had disagreements.

The NAZIs were able to stop enforcing the laws of the German Republic while controlling only 15% of the civil service positions. In the US currently about 96% of all civil servants are Christians.
Citation?

It is obscene that you attempt to imply civil servants @ an unsubstantiated claim of 96% are tantamount to Nazi's during WW2. Especially when Hitler was Catholic.
 
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That is an absurd statement. Perhaps reading up on what Sharia Law entails would help you not to make the mistake again.

It's Hardly Absurd to Compare any theists in positions of Secular Governmental authority, who seek to codify their personal selective interpretation of religious texts into civil law, circumventing the democratic process that put them there in the first place, with one another.

The comparison is quite valid.

I'm using the Term "Sharia Law" generically BTW... the same way one calls call any facial tissue a "Kleenex" regardless of the actual name brand of the tissue.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, guess what...?
 
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Citation?

It is obscene that you attempt to imply civil servants @ an unsubstantiated claim of 96% are tantamount to Nazi's during WW2.

I did no such thing. I only noted a historical fact. During the Nazification period NAZI civil servants routinely refuse to administer the laws of the German Republic.


Especially when Hitler was Catholic.

Why are you bring up an irrelevant fact the Hitler was Catholic ?

Do you hate Catholics ?
 
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It's Hardly Absurd to Compare any theists in positions of Secular Governmental authority, who seek to codify their personal selective interpretation of religious texts into civil law, circumventing the democratic process that put them there in the first place, with one another.

The comparison is quite valid.

Yes, it is.
 
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When the NAZIs took over the civil service during the Nazification of Germany between 1930-1933 they routinely refused to enforce administrative laws to various racial and cultural minorities with whom they had disagreements.

The NAZIs were able to stop enforcing the laws of the German Republic while controlling only 15% of the civil service positions. In the US currently about 96% of all civil servants are Christians.
Drink!
 
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Perhaps you don't understand the parameters of the game:

Guess the fine.

It hardly matters, does it? She's building a conservative fanbase who'll all chip in and pay whatever it is.

When the Dutch legalised same-sex marriage they had an opt-out policy for conscientous objectors. Civil servants already working in this capacity didn't have to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies if they objected. If, however, they were hired after the law was changed, they could no longer object.

Seems only fair to me.
 
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It hardly matters, does it? She's building a conservative fanbase who'll all chip in and pay whatever it is.

When the Dutch legalised same-sex marriage they had an opt-out policy for conscious objectors. Civil servants already working in this capacity didn't have to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies if they objected. If, however, they were hired after the law was changed, they could no longer object.

Seems only fair to me.

That makes way too much sense.
 
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Good for her for standing for what is right rather than what is popular.
Maybe she should have stood up for what's right before marrying 4 men and having children with one while married to another. Jesus would without question declare this woman a hypocrite he doesn't know. She doesn't care about the sanctity of marriage or following Jesus, she only cares about her hatred of gays.
 
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