And according to the judge's order, will stay there until she agrees to issue marriage licenses to all legally qualified couples. So far, she's refusing.
Mahablog has a good, concise summary of the state of affairs as of this morning. She makes one telling observation: "At this point the story is the fallout." That's really it. Davis has no legal options left, although she's vowed to appeal. At least, her attorneys say so, but she really has no legal recourse left: both the Sixth Circuit and the Supreme Court refused requests for stays on Judge Bunning's order, and given the force of her arguments to date, they're not likely to entertain an appeal.
Mat Staver, of Liberty Counsel, her attorneys, is eating it up:
"Surprisingly" because just about everyone else has dragged Parks into the fray. Staver was probably blinded by the dollar signs he's seeing. And let's face it: there's nothing admirable about Kim Davis: the people Staver mentioned were all working for fairness and equal treatment of all -- they are Davis' polar opposites. And, judging by her refusal to allow her deputies to issue licenses, it's obvious that the real issue here is her desire to force her personal religious beliefs on everyone one else through the powers of her office.
Not surprisingly, the one thing that keeps shining through on Davis' part is her overwhelming arrogance, including her refusal to allow her deputies to issue licenses in her place and her assertion that those licenses "are not worth the paper that they are written on." (There's some question about that last: the County Clerk's signature is required, but there is provision for maintaining the business of the clerk's office during the clerk's absence -- and being in jail certainly counts as "absence.") It's obvious that the real issue here is her desire to force her personal religious beliefs on everyone one else through the powers of her office.
Good luck with that.
Mahablog has a good, concise summary of the state of affairs as of this morning. She makes one telling observation: "At this point the story is the fallout." That's really it. Davis has no legal options left, although she's vowed to appeal. At least, her attorneys say so, but she really has no legal recourse left: both the Sixth Circuit and the Supreme Court refused requests for stays on Judge Bunning's order, and given the force of her arguments to date, they're not likely to entertain an appeal.
Mat Staver, of Liberty Counsel, her attorneys, is eating it up:
Staver also compared Davis to other "prisoners of conscience."
"Kim joins a long list of people who were imprisoned for their conscience. People who today we admire, like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan Huss, John Bunyan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and more."
Surprisingly, he left off Rosa Parks.
"Surprisingly" because just about everyone else has dragged Parks into the fray. Staver was probably blinded by the dollar signs he's seeing. And let's face it: there's nothing admirable about Kim Davis: the people Staver mentioned were all working for fairness and equal treatment of all -- they are Davis' polar opposites. And, judging by her refusal to allow her deputies to issue licenses, it's obvious that the real issue here is her desire to force her personal religious beliefs on everyone one else through the powers of her office.
Not surprisingly, the one thing that keeps shining through on Davis' part is her overwhelming arrogance, including her refusal to allow her deputies to issue licenses in her place and her assertion that those licenses "are not worth the paper that they are written on." (There's some question about that last: the County Clerk's signature is required, but there is provision for maintaining the business of the clerk's office during the clerk's absence -- and being in jail certainly counts as "absence.") It's obvious that the real issue here is her desire to force her personal religious beliefs on everyone one else through the powers of her office.
Good luck with that.
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I have a hard time agreeing that she's arrogant. I look at the photos of her, and I see a kindergartner, a petulant child. I don't think her mental processes are sophisticated enough for arrogance, unless it's the arrogance of the in-crowd girls looking down on the uglies.
Arrogance doesn't require much in the way of emotional maturity or sophistication -- quite the opposite. This is the cast of mind that insists that the universe must conform to her wishes -- sort of like a two-year-old.
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