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She isn't going to win. I support the right of a business to do business or not do business with who they choose but that doesn't translate to their employee's. If the employer says "we are going to do business with X......." as an employee you do business with them or move on.
Same here. The government has said that they will all marriage to same sex couples. Her choice is now to do her job or move on.
But don't you see? By banning SSM, they essentially kept government completely out of the marriage business for same-sex couples. Where hetero couples still suffered under the yoke of government intervention in their marital affairs, the conservatives set the same-sex couples free, completely free, of any and all government meddling. The gays were going to be pioneers of the new non-government marriage - yet, did they appreciate it? Oh no. The ingrates.
LOL...with the reasoning they're using I can see them coming up with something like this for real!
[quote=Yeledaf;41105923]For starters, all of the art, music, schools, hospitals, universities, and charitable organizations it has inspired. All of those people can't have been seeking to harm others.
Personally, I think the slavish devotion to federal oversight and power shared by so many political progressives constitutes the most insidious theological threat to Americans. The Supreme Court is coming to resemble the Inquisition more and more every day. Nine black robes, appointed for life, subject to no regulations or earthly power, handing down their edicts...[/quote]
I was unaware that anyone threw anything, including hatred, at anyone except Ms. Davis. If that did occur, one hopes the perpetrators were arrested. I don't recall reading about such arrests.
That is not news. The legal system has indeed ground another dissenter under its heel. Cheers all around.
No one physically threw anything at the clerk either. Both sides were shouting over the others.
When the couples went in Friday to get licenses they were greeted with chants of pervert and abomination. At the court house for the hearing "preachers" were out in force screeching about how this "poor woman" was being refused her rights because those abominations and deviants want to get married. The pro SSM side was chanting "love wins".
The legal system is working as it always has. file a suit, it works its way through the system, and there is a ruling. You may not like this ruling but it was and is a legally binding ruling.
You could say exactly the same things about Islam. The problem isn't Islam. It's fundamentalism. There are Christian fundamentalists right here who would dearly love to impose their own version of Sharia Law on the rest of us. Kim Davis is apparently one of them.
Personally, I'd say Christian fundamentalists and the government officials who hold the same views seeking to impose their religious restrictions on everyone else are the most insidious theological threats to Americans. You want to be a Christian? Fine, have at it. Live your life whatever way you want. But don't try to force me or anyone else to live their lives your way.
As for the part about the Supreme Court, why was this never a problem before the gay marriage ruling? Indeed, social conservatives cheered the Hobby Lobby decision. Why is it a problem now? And if you think the Supreme Court is subject to no regulations or earthly power, you need to read the Constitution.
For starters, all of the art, music, schools, hospitals, universities, and charitable organizations it has inspired. All of those people can't have been seeking to harm others.
Personally, I think the slavish devotion to federal oversight and power shared by so many political progressives constitutes the most insidious theological threat to Americans. The Supreme Court is coming to resemble the Inquisition more and more every day. Nine black robes, appointed for life, subject to no regulations or earthly power, handing down their edicts...
The Supreme Court merely interprets laws. They don't make them. What is so difficult to understand about that? Would you be raising such a fuss or preaching doom and gloom like this if they had upheld the ban on SSM? I think not. I sincerely believe you would have been very happy about it and everything would be right in your world had it gone the other way. But because it didn't, suddenly the SCOTUS is "making laws", subjecting people to "inquisitions" and "shredding the Constitution". Is that what's happening now? The Inquisition? Really?
Look, if you guys want to ban same sex marriages then I suggest you start the petition to amend the Constitution. Obviously the laws that various states have tried to pass to ban it did so without determining if they were constitutional or not. Do it the way it was intended. Don't take your frustration out of the folks that interpret the law. I think they probably know a tad more about it than you.
If God defined it, it cannot be redefined. If God said it, that settles it, whether you like it/believe it or not.
Since there are thousands of different sects of "Christianity" who have all redefined what they believe "The Word of God" says differently, clearly the "Word of God" is NOT settled.
Davis, an Apostolic Christian, says her commitment to her faith came after she found "a message of grace" four years ago when she went to church following the death of her mother-in-law. advertisement
"I am not perfect. No one is," she said in her statement. "But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and to the Word of God."
The "recently converted" with a past history of "sinful living," are always the most judgmental and hypocritical.
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