“cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official”.
"It's my right to deny your rights."
Remeber these are the people shouting about religious freedoms.
This is something that needs to shouted loud and clear.
The Constitution protects citizens from the government. If you work for the government, you are what the Constitution protects us from. If you do not understand that, you do not need to be getting a paycheck drawn from taxpayers.
They literally believe the very existence of gay married couples is an assault on their religious freedom. The unchecked "religious freedom" they want logically would include bigamy and pedophilia, but better not talk about that.
Evangelicals and conservatives want to be protected by American laws but not bound by them, while everyone else is tightly bound by laws, but not protected by them.
Rob Corddry did a Daily Show interview way back about the pharmacist and birth control (the abortion pill). The pharmacist kept saying about his right were being violated when the courts said he had to go against his beliefs. Rob sarcastically says (I'm paraphrasing), "yeah, how can they push their beliefs on you! that's your job to do the customer!"
For conservatives “religious freedom” means their freedom to impose their religion on you.
She’ll just get crowdfunding money from Republicans (white domestic terrorists).
I mean, either way it's a win. If she gets $2 each from a shitload of right wing fuckheads, that means we made ~50,000 right wing fuckheads pay to support gay marriage.
That’s 50,000 people paying for the attempt at preventing gay marriage, not in support of it.
Paying for a failed attempt. So it's kind of impotence squared if it happens.
That's $100,000 that won't get to those people unless somebody else raises it because I doubt very seriously Kim Davis has $100,000.
If only we could collect their names and tell everyone about how they feel!
I don't care where she gets the money, as I'm delighted where the money is going.
Finally. We have the funds to enact the Gay Agenda©
Execute order 69.
That's fine, victims get their money and some dumb cunt in Ohio is a little bit poorer. Sounds like a win-win to me.
Sounds like socialism to me
I get the joke but to be clear, handouts are not a problem for these folks, so long as the Jesus Strings are fully attached.
Everyone has the right to follow their religion. If Big Kim didn't want to disobey her God, she is allowed to: by resigning her position in protest and joining a monastery.
I believe "Get thee to a nunnery." might be appropriate.
Good, fuck her, cunt.
On another topic, while I'm straight, if I were gay, I don't think I'm prepared to date, let alone marry, someone with the same first name as me. Being gay is perfectly normal, marrying someone with the same first name as you isn't. No judgement though, just don't think I'm cut out for it.
Call Me by Our Name
SAY OUR NAME, SAY OUR NAME!
New head-cannon for the Bobs in office space.
So judge David B ruled Kim Davis had to pay David E and David M 50k each. .
I was not aware there were so many Dave's involved.
These are the Daves that I know I know, these are the Daves I know. Some of them go by David but most of them just go by Dave. They all have different hands but come from different moms
Eight year legal battle and a payout you'll never see. Seems fair.
I've said it before, if your religion is preventing you form doing your job, either change you religion or change your job.
She's going to start a GoFundMe and get like $500k and walk away wealthy. I hate how fucked up our society is.
I don’t understand why one couple got $100,000, while the other couple got nothing. I wish the article had expanded on that a bit more.
Be a joke; go broke
Thoughts and prayers.
aaaaahahahahahahaha that bitch can get fucked for all hundred k of it.
Finally some good news. Still amazed it's taken this long to get a resolution
US district judge David Bunning said that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official”.
[…]
During this week’s trial, Davis argued that she was protected from litigation due to qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects government officials from lawsuits accusing them of violating someone’s constitutional rights.
"I shouldn't have to do this thing because of my beliefs."
"I shouldn't be guilty because I was acting on behalf of the government."
Pretty big valley between these two arguments. Roast this fucking turd.
"Good Christian" Adulterer Kim Davis conceived twins with her lover while married to another man.
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death” (Leviticus 20:10)
Yet another example of an evangelical conservative expecting to be protected by laws but not bound by them, while everyone else is to be bound by laws but not protected by them.
For abusing authority she doesn't have. Save up Kim,
Sucks to suck
Davis went far out of her way to screw over some people. Bigotry has costs.
No way this red has that money
FAFO
I guess no immunity for her?
Should been police!
You're looking at it the wrong way. This is like a cop seeking QI for letting an escaped convict go. Doing the opposite of their "job".
Border patrol agent Manual Alvarez IV got qualified immunity for assaulting me while I was in handcuffs between being booked and being interrogated. That certainly wasn't part of his job.
Also, I was found not guilty because you are allowed to protest the separation and detention of children at the border. So it wasn't part of his job to arrest me either.
Qualified immunity. Now that racist, fuck is just in a different part of border patrol training and leading the other agents. This is how poison spreads. This is why all cops are bastards. You either pluck these people out of the system immediately or accept that you have corrupted a system.
Bet he got a pat on his back from his buddies for this. Fucking pigs.
But how are we gonna remain as American as apple pie if we keep getting rid of all our apples?
Uplifting news!
GAAAAH!!! MY EYES!!! I'd forgotten how ugly that woman is, inside and out!
Does she still wear her homemade birth control dresses?
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