The Fox news talking heads, specifically Huckabee, are wrong when they say she is awesome and is exercising religious freedom, and I agree with them a lot of the time. If signing off marriage licenses to gay couples went against her conscience that much she should have just resigned from her job (assuming she would have been allowed to as an elected official) and moved on.
Diff_opinions wrote:
When did we castrate most States?
1861-1865.
Justice Antonin Scalia, in writing for the majority, said that the First Amendment freedom of religion does not allow individuals to break the law:
"We have never held that an individual's beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the state is free to regulate." He said it would be "courting anarchy" to create exceptions every time a religious group claims that a law infringes on its practices.
Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
Apparently she's been divorced 3 times and had children out of wedlock. Really puts this little stunt into perspective.
Huckabee's a real atrocity
4 Republican candidates sign "promarriage" pledge. It requires them to take certain steps to overturn the supreme court decision and to protect the Kim Davis types of behavior.
What is it with Republicans and requiring their candidates to sign so many pledges. It shows weakness for a POTUS to sign a pledge. Who know what the situation will be and they do have an oath of office.
Don't Republicans trust their own candidates?
Whaaaat? wrote:
Someone stood up for what she believed in and pays the price.
Obamamerica in action.
Posts like this make me sad, almost sick.
Why do people believe talk radio instead of reading the Constitution?
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk wrote:
Whaaaat? wrote:Someone stood up for what she believed in and pays the price.
Obamamerica in action.
Posts like this make me sad, almost sick.
Why do people believe talk radio instead of reading the Constitution?
While I completely disagree with her, I think it is fine for her to stand up for her convictions. And I think it is fine for her incur consequences for her decision to do so. Is the religious right arguing that there should be no consequences for standing up for your beliefs? Particularly when it clearly breaks the law?
Pittsburgh Joe wrote:
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk wrote:Posts like this make me sad, almost sick.
Why do people believe talk radio instead of reading the Constitution?
While I completely disagree with her, I think it is fine for her to stand up for her convictions. And I think it is fine for her incur consequences for her decision to do so. Is the religious right arguing that there should be no consequences for standing up for your beliefs? Particularly when it clearly breaks the law?
The thought that Obama is responsible for this just boggles my mind.
The Constitution is pretty freakin clear here.
Aren't conservatives the ones who want limited government? I don't need the clerk deciding what the law is based on who she prays to.
Except for the fact that she is a registered Democrat.
A Repubtards Dream wrote:
WFC? wrote:An elected democrat is behind bars.
I call this "a good start."
It is where all these $hit stain democrats belong.
Repubtards are in love with her. She'll be working for a Republican political campaign soon because she can practice her right to refuse anything she wishes based on her religious beliefs, and her--cough!--work ethic.
Actually she is a dino - Democrat in name onlyAnd all her future financial rewards (and they will come) will come from Republicans.
Angry Willy wrote:
Except for the fact that she is a registered Democrat.
A Repubtards Dream wrote:Repubtards are in love with her. She'll be working for a Republican political campaign soon because she can practice her right to refuse anything she wishes based on her religious beliefs, and her--cough!--work ethic.
Dino... that's awesome.
I imagine that Inn the future all political parties - in a effort to maximize voter base, will become one big vague party - like a corportation. If you replace the head, another will pop up just the same.
Hillary and Trump aren't that far off.
This country will lose the middle class and it will become the haves and the have nots.
Or whatever. ... TRUMP 2016! Let's get Arnold in as VP!
"Asked if Davis, who was jailed last week for refusing to issue the licenses, should be forced to obey the Supreme Court ruling on marriage, Huckabee cited the landmark Dred Scott decision.
"You obey it if it's right," Huckabee said on ABC's "This Week." "So I go back to my question. Is slavery the law of the land? Should it have been the law of the land because Dred Scott said so? Was that a correct decision? Should the courts have been irrevocably followed on that? Should Lincoln have been put in jail? Because he ignored it."
Hucksterbee is an amazing manipulator trying to resuscitate his dying campaign.
He knows that those who opposed slavery, opposed a law that was denying rights to others. Kim Davis by breaking the law was doing the opposite of those who opposed slavery. She was denying rights to others. To pretend its the same is just contemptable.
Hucksterbee has no shame and his followers have no ability for higher rational thought.