Rowan Clerk refuses Same Sex Marriage License

[Shangri-laschild]

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/...e22949817.html

What she is doing didn't work when people did it about interracial marriage. It won't work now either.

[Greenday]

And she's now appealed the contempt order:

http://www.wchstv.com/news/features/...l#.Ve2gJmLD_qB

Can't say I'm surprised. Everyone knew this would be coming.

[Kheldarson]

And she's now appealed the contempt order:

http://www.wchstv.com/news/features/...l#.Ve2gJmLD_qB

[s_stabeler]

To be fair, WBC AREN'T saying that she's wrong to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses. They're merely saying that she isn't following her religion properly.(their argument is that since ( in their view) God doesn't recognise divorce, then her subsequent marriages after her first are invalid, and so she is living in sin. It's notable that,if I understand the dogma correctly, the Catholic Church actually agrees on that point.)

in short: panic over, the WBC are still a bunch of idiotic bigots.

[Andrew B]

Ok, good. I'm not the only one who got that feeling. The world is scarring me.

[Racket_Man]

I'm just going to leave this here:

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/4133...=17_2&ts_pid=2

Did I just hear the faint voice of Rod Serling and some creepy music in the background???????

This is getting too bizarro-world for me.

[Kheldarson]

I'm just going to leave this here:

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/4133...=17_2&ts_pid=2

[BlaqueKatt]

It will fail, but it won't matter because the picture of her being escorted out of her office in handcuffs will be all over Fox "news" and will spark her GoFundMe retirement account. She is grandstanding her way to false martyrdom for personal gain.

except after the recent debacles gofundme changed their rules, her account was removed(It had only gotten $2).


So she has nothing but a record.

[Rapscallion]

See, this is where we start seeing how her argument fails. Because not all Christian groups teach that same dogma.

Aye, but she chose one that does.

I saw it better described than I did elsewhere, when someone said that if you told a lie once when you, when a parent you can still tell your children not to lie.

Rapscallion

[Tama]

She reminds me of Quark who tried to take a stand against the sweeping for-the-better changes in Ferengi society in the last few episodes of DS9.

She looks just as foolish...

[Aragarthiel]

Who called that she as trying for martyr status?

[Gravekeeper]

Her lawyer just Godwin'd the case:

Citing attorney-client privilege, Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, who has likened acceptance of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision to turning over a Jew to the Nazis, refused to say what advice he gave Davis, who was jailed Thursday for contempt of court.

Yes, totally the same thing. You twunt.

Staver compared his client, without apparent irony, to “people who today we admire, like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan Huss, John Bunyan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and more.”

Argh. >.>

[Kheldarson]

I don't have a full timeline, but I seem to recall that she repented of all her 'sins' and was born again, and is therefore an innocent.

Doesn't mean she's not an unpleasant person for forcing others to follow her religion.

Rapscallion

See, this is where we start seeing how her argument fails. Because not all Christian groups teach that same dogma.

[Rapscallion]

I'd argue it is. Not only does it reveal a hypocrisy that boggles the mind and hurts her credibility (especially since none of her side acknowledges it), it also reveals how truly unChristian she is. Again, undermining her position.

I don't have a full timeline, but I seem to recall that she repented of all her 'sins' and was born again, and is therefore an innocent.

Doesn't mean she's not an unpleasant person for forcing others to follow her religion.

Rapscallion

[Kheldarson]

And the couples finally got their licenses:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...nty/?tid=sm_fb