Kim Davis, Who Denied Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples Violated Rights, Finds Federal Judge

[durangodawood]

During the time of the Black Death, though, the average serf would not have known the widespread extent of the pestilence...and there had been pestilences before. By the early 1900s, it was possible for the average person to know that the Spanish Flu pandemic was worldwide...and it had followed the first world war.

Hmm. I'm skeptical that people had no access to news or rumors from beyond their county.

 

[loveofourlord]

No one forces them to have a certain job. Those sects that forbid blood transfusions, do you think their members work in blood banks or as surgical nurses and then refuse to give or take blood?

While I have little sympathy for her this is a little different as the requirements for the job changed on er. She should still have to do her job but it's different from going into a blood bank job as a JW, and more like they suddenly started requiring giving transfusions out of the blue.

 

[RDKirk]

While I have little sympathy for her this is a little different as the requirements for the job changed on er. She should still have to do her job but it's different from going into a blood bank job as a JW, and more like they suddenly started requiring giving transfusions out of the blue.

It can't be said to be "out of the blue." This situation has been approaching from the horizon for a decade. Every public office holder should have seen it coming.

 

[adrianmonk]

While I have little sympathy for her this is a little different as the requirements for the job changed on er. She should still have to do her job but it's different from going into a blood bank job as a JW, and more like they suddenly started requiring giving transfusions out of the blue.

She had other options rather than violating people's rights.

 

[Aussie Pete]

Let us know when that happens in the US, so I can fight against it.



There's plenty of time to be mad about it if and when it happens. Don't go to your grave upset over phantoms.

Not at all upset. If I was unprepared, I might be. If I was in my 30's, I might be worried also.

 

[cow451]

Praise GOD she took a stand. That being said.. if the law ..to make it simple give to anyone according to the law and she disagreed..should have just quit. This day and age where just being a Christian you get attacked made fun of more now then ever before.. happens even here.

She wasn't and isn't ridiculed because she is a Christian. It has more to do with her arrogance and pride in carrying out her duties. And her comeuppance.

 

[cow451]

But this time it is for real.

True that each day brings us one day closer to death.

 

[cow451]

No,
The Bible could be, and has been, called racist. The cringing, narcissistic wimps who clamour for "safe spaces" will soon be running nations. I'll be 71 soon. I don't know how many years I have left. It may not be in my lifetime, but I fully expect the Bible to be outlawed in supposedly Christian nations.

I'm nearly as old as you, but probably better-looking.
I live in America and I can pray anywhere I choose and can own as many Bibles as I want and can read it without interruption as long as my cat and dog do not need anything. I've heard this hand-wringing all my life.


The only problem (Christian) evangelicalism has is some of it's own adherents' actions, IMHO.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Kim Davis to pay $100,000 for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses​

A federal jury decided Wednesday that former county clerk Kim Davisowes $100,000 in damages to a same-sex couple to whom she refused to provide a marriage license on three separate occasions.

Both sets of plaintiffs won their lawsuits at the summary judgment phase in March 2022. [i.e. the OP]

Liberty Counsel acknowledged in its statement Wednesday that despite the jury’s decision, the case has “potential to go to the U.S. Supreme Court

“Three of the five justices in the Obergefell majority are no longer on the Court,” the statement noted, echoing Justice Clarence Thomas’ words from a 2020 appeal that Davis attempted to bring before the justices.

“The Court has created a problem that only it can fix,” said Thomas at the time about the Obergefell decision.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Kim Davis to pay $100,000 for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses​

A federal jury decided Wednesday that former county clerk Kim Davisowes $100,000 in damages to a same-sex couple to whom she refused to provide a marriage license on three separate occasions.

Both sets of plaintiffs won their lawsuits at the summary judgment phase in March 2022. [i.e. the OP]

Liberty Counsel acknowledged in its statement Wednesday that despite the jury’s decision, the case has “potential to go to the U.S. Supreme Court

“Three of the five justices in the Obergefell majority are no longer on the Court,” the statement noted, echoing Justice Clarence Thomas’ words from a 2020 appeal that Davis attempted to bring before the justices.

“The Court has created a problem that only it can fix,” said Thomas at the time about the Obergefell decision.

Should be a good lesson learned all-around.

That lesson being "You don't get to ignore the laws you don't like or refuse to do your duty just because you're in an elected position...and if you do, there are consequences (both professionally and financially)"

 

[essentialsaltes]

Kim Davis to pay $100,000 for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses​

And $260,000 in legal fees for the prevailing plaintiffs. Personally (I think).

 

[Tropical Wilds]

And $260,000 in legal fees for the prevailing plaintiffs. Personally.

LoL, perfect. Fantastic.

 

[RileyG]

She should have just resigned and saved herself the mess.

 

[durangodawood]

She should have just resigned and saved herself the mess.

If you cant do the job for this or that reason, just find a different job..... Especially re a job in which you are supposed to provide services that people are entitled to by law.

 

[RileyG]

If you cant do the job for this or that reason, just find a different job..... Especially re a job in which you are supposed to provide services that people are entitled to by law.

exactly! ...