To recap:
Kentucky clerk refuses to follow a lawful order in keeping with the S.Ct. ruling.
Judge gives clerk a choice to avoid conflict of conscience.
Clerk refuses. Judge holds her in contempt and puts her behind bars until she complies.
Clerk states she couldn't in good conscience allow her name to be affixed to the licenses.
In her absence clerks begin issuing licenses without her name affixed.
Clerk declares the licenses invalid because they lack her name.
Previously there was some debate around here about a level of hypocrisy attaching to someone torn by religious beliefs who was working on her fourth marriage and the defense was a recent conversion, which would seem reasonable.
But when asked about her decision to deny the licenses she didn't cite her recent embrace of the faith. No, she said, "I'm a preacher's daughter, and this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life." That would appear to be resting on a less honest impression. She presumably was a preacher's daughter during the activity prior to her conversion as well.
What I'm suggesting is that appearance appears to be very important to her, even to the point of misleading people with her selection of reveals.
Davis has said she hopes the Kentucky legislature will change the law in such a way as to allow her to remain Clerk without violating her conscience...for those following along that's a tacit admission that she's not performing the duties of her office. Worse, before being held in contempt she had said she would actively forbid her deputies from following their duty and, presumably, exercising their own consciences.
:think:
Kentucky clerk refuses to follow a lawful order in keeping with the S.Ct. ruling.
Judge gives clerk a choice to avoid conflict of conscience.
Clerk refuses. Judge holds her in contempt and puts her behind bars until she complies.
Clerk states she couldn't in good conscience allow her name to be affixed to the licenses.
In her absence clerks begin issuing licenses without her name affixed.
Clerk declares the licenses invalid because they lack her name.
Previously there was some debate around here about a level of hypocrisy attaching to someone torn by religious beliefs who was working on her fourth marriage and the defense was a recent conversion, which would seem reasonable.
But when asked about her decision to deny the licenses she didn't cite her recent embrace of the faith. No, she said, "I'm a preacher's daughter, and this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life." That would appear to be resting on a less honest impression. She presumably was a preacher's daughter during the activity prior to her conversion as well.
What I'm suggesting is that appearance appears to be very important to her, even to the point of misleading people with her selection of reveals.
Davis has said she hopes the Kentucky legislature will change the law in such a way as to allow her to remain Clerk without violating her conscience...for those following along that's a tacit admission that she's not performing the duties of her office. Worse, before being held in contempt she had said she would actively forbid her deputies from following their duty and, presumably, exercising their own consciences.
:think: