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The Rowan County Kentucky clerk still refuses to obey the law and issue marriage licenses to gay couples despite a Supreme Court Ruling making same-sex marriage a right nationwide and losing her court case and subsequent appeals claiming that to do so would violate her religious freedom.
She loses and refuses to do her job. She was elected to do the job of county clerk. She should do it. Not just the parts she likes, but all of it. Continue reading “She loses and refuses”
The Rowan County Kentucky Clerk’s Office has decided not to obey the law and issue marriage licenses to gay couples despite a Supreme Court Ruling making same-sex marriage a right nationwide. The Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis claimed doing so would be a violation of her religious rights.
However, U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning felt differently and ordered the office to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. Continue reading “Rowan County Kentucky Clerk should resign or follow the law”
I’m back from vacation and ready to blog but the news today changed what I was about to say. Pennsylvania does not seem to be the most progressive state. But today we joined with the other northeastern states in allowing same-sex marriages.
Of course our Governor may decide to appeal the court ruling but for the meanwhile we seem ready to join the rest of the northeast in recognizing a human right. Courts have also forced us to recognize the right of all citizens to vote, even if they cannot produce a birth certificate.
We still have a few relatively backward things such as state liquor stores but we are getting better.
Just up the road a few miles from here, the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Register of Wills has been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Some of those couples have been married in Pennsylvania. But the problem is that such marriages are against state law.
A few weeks ago, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announced that she would not defend state law banning gay marriage in court because she believed the law to be unconstitutional. Now the Montgomery County Register of Wills is issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The governor is suing to stop the Montgomery County Register of Wills.
Same-sex marriage has come to Pennsylvania but this is a very confusing but interesting situation and I don’t have a clue as to how it will turn out.
I was thinking about the arguments before the Supreme Court right now as they decide about 2 same-sex marriage cases. It seems to me that both laws are wrong in that they denying civil rights to a certain class of individuals.
I was thinking of a documentary I saw a while back. I looked it up and it seems to be The Loving Story on HBO. The klink may be a bit slow to load but it is a good summary of the story and has links to more about the documentary.
In that case there was a law against interracial marriage which forced this couple from their home. The law was eventually found unconstitutional but it seems to me a good bit of harm was done to this and probably other families by then.
I was thinking that this is kind of the same issue or at least very similar so I googled what I remembered from “The Loving Story” and found a good blog entry did a very good job in discussing this.
So read The Supreme Court Ended Mixed-Race Marriage Bans Less than 50 Years Ago.