It has long been stated that almost anything can be justified in the name of religion, but Davis is taking that concept to an absurd extreme. Hard right politics and conservative religion is a symbiotic relationship that has dealt humanity nothing but misery. She needs to spend the rest of her miserable life rotting in prison.
Right off the top, do you realize that this business started OVER 11 YEARS AGO? Kim Davis decided that issuing a marriage license to a gay couple was against her Deeply Held Religious Beliefs™, whereupon she was first taken to court, then taken over the coals! Apparently, the intervening time has been spent in trying to get her to pay damages and court costs for the crap she created with her insistence on religious righteousness (which she fails miserably to demonstrate).
She called the tune, and the piper is waiting for payment.
All she had to do was pay the fine and she would have left the collective consciousness of the nation. But, she had to follow her indoctrination and try to avoid the consequences of her actions. After all, her holy book says that she should pay nothing as long as she does the Public Apology to the Ceiling.
She exhausted her appeals. She can no longer use the excuse that she is fighting for what God wants. Now it's just greed and trying to stiff the people she actively harmed.
She was used by that organization to push a cause- anti-gay bigotry, otherwise she wouldn't have had the money for the lawyers. I have no doubt she was paid by them.
Even Alito says same-gender marriage in America is forever.
Think about it:
Many people who marry do so to honor their interpretation of God.
But EVERYONE who signs a contract (including a marriage contract) creates a likely complex legal entanglement.
I think that Alito's issue is complications arising from the creation of new family units. Or more specifically, disrupting them, including adopted children. Where would countless adopted children be returned to once they were taken from their gay parents? (Especially in a nation that has >50% approval of same-gender marriage.)
What a mess. I was sure his Board would dump him, Jensen is just an albatross around the corporate neck at this point. How many other affairs will turn up is anybody's guess. And how deep the CCP's spying goes will be interesting to see as well. China desperately needs chips.
Further Thought: Kim Davis' original mistake was in thinking that her god's law overrode the laws, statutes, and procedures that this country operates under. To put things bluntly, 𝐈𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍'𝐓, and from that time to this, she has tried to avoid the consequences of her own presumption and hubris. The obvious problem is that she hasn't faced reality, and as it comes to that:
I was an English major. I screw up on grammar all the time. Which is more likely: a woman who graduated high school and immediately went to work for her mother in the clerk's office was that precise with her grammar on the fly and under pressure, or a liar for Jesus was lying?
Eleven years. If she hasn't learned her lesson in all that time, she certainly won't now. She could have just paid her fine in the beginning and stopped it there. She had made her point, taken her stand, and it had cost her. She would have gotten sympathy and commiseration from her family and friends, felt proud of herself because she stood up for Jesus and life would have gone on. But no.
She could have stopped all the years-long legal wrasslin' at any point before she dug herself into a half-million dollar hole, but she didn't, and here we are. Because she's too damn stupid to know when to quit, too hooked on all the adoration and "atta girl" attention from fellow fundie wing nuts, and too drunk on idea of martyrdom and her righteous ass being "persecuted for Jesus" and bound for glory in the afterlife.
There won't be any getting through to a mindset like that. Just arrest her ass, seize her assets to satisfy the debt, put an end to her eleven-year pity-party, and be done with it.
She fucked around. She found out.
Hopefully, she isn't done finding out.
Or PAYING out! 💰
I would say that "fucking around" was the only thing she had going for her.
Surely one of her three former husbands could pony up some cash to protect the "sanctity of marriage."
She should definitely try that approach. ;)
It has long been stated that almost anything can be justified in the name of religion, but Davis is taking that concept to an absurd extreme. Hard right politics and conservative religion is a symbiotic relationship that has dealt humanity nothing but misery. She needs to spend the rest of her miserable life rotting in prison.
"the former Kentucky clerk must explain why she shouldn’t be sanctioned"
Your honor; Jesus.
Nuthin' says Xtian like bigotry, adultery, and stealing.
And the denying of rights!
....and wrongs.
Right off the top, do you realize that this business started OVER 11 YEARS AGO? Kim Davis decided that issuing a marriage license to a gay couple was against her Deeply Held Religious Beliefs™, whereupon she was first taken to court, then taken over the coals! Apparently, the intervening time has been spent in trying to get her to pay damages and court costs for the crap she created with her insistence on religious righteousness (which she fails miserably to demonstrate).
She called the tune, and the piper is waiting for payment.
All she had to do was pay the fine and she would have left the collective consciousness of the nation. But, she had to follow her indoctrination and try to avoid the consequences of her actions. After all, her holy book says that she should pay nothing as long as she does the Public Apology to the Ceiling.
She exhausted her appeals. She can no longer use the excuse that she is fighting for what God wants. Now it's just greed and trying to stiff the people she actively harmed.
She was used by that organization to push a cause- anti-gay bigotry, otherwise she wouldn't have had the money for the lawyers. I have no doubt she was paid by them.
She'll forever remain a testament to all that is wrong with Christianity long after she has departed this life.
Particularly the hair......
I still think she looks like Dick Cheney.
He smiles more.
Even now.
(ESPECIALLY now!)
Times up! Accountability now!
Even Alito says same-gender marriage in America is forever.
Think about it:
Many people who marry do so to honor their interpretation of God.
But EVERYONE who signs a contract (including a marriage contract) creates a likely complex legal entanglement.
I think that Alito's issue is complications arising from the creation of new family units. Or more specifically, disrupting them, including adopted children. Where would countless adopted children be returned to once they were taken from their gay parents? (Especially in a nation that has >50% approval of same-gender marriage.)
And yet Thomas wants to revisit Obergefell. One wonders how he feels about Loving v. Virginia.
He sees a white man when he looks in a mirror.
If that's what he truly sees, then boy-howdy, is he in for a wake-up call!
...and white men surrounding him constantly.
At least as long as he ignores "the help".
Early OT: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns!
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-resigns-reports-extramarital-relationships-rcna608402
A blind man could see THAT one coming!
A billionaire called to account for 2 affairs, one with a Chinese spy. It's a start.
Let's hope so, Sko...
(Should we all learn how to knit?)
"What Would Madame Defarge Knit?"
https://cooperativepress.com/products/what-would-madame-defarge-knit
What a mess. I was sure his Board would dump him, Jensen is just an albatross around the corporate neck at this point. How many other affairs will turn up is anybody's guess. And how deep the CCP's spying goes will be interesting to see as well. China desperately needs chips.
Render to Caesar what is Caesar's...
That would have, in this case, included doing your original job, Ma'am.
But now it means forking over the dough.
Further Thought: Kim Davis' original mistake was in thinking that her god's law overrode the laws, statutes, and procedures that this country operates under. To put things bluntly, 𝐈𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍'𝐓, and from that time to this, she has tried to avoid the consequences of her own presumption and hubris. The obvious problem is that she hasn't faced reality, and as it comes to that:
𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡, 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦.
-- Philip K. Dick
𝑁𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑚 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑟.
I was an English major. I screw up on grammar all the time. Which is more likely: a woman who graduated high school and immediately went to work for her mother in the clerk's office was that precise with her grammar on the fly and under pressure, or a liar for Jesus was lying?
Eleven years. If she hasn't learned her lesson in all that time, she certainly won't now. She could have just paid her fine in the beginning and stopped it there. She had made her point, taken her stand, and it had cost her. She would have gotten sympathy and commiseration from her family and friends, felt proud of herself because she stood up for Jesus and life would have gone on. But no.
She could have stopped all the years-long legal wrasslin' at any point before she dug herself into a half-million dollar hole, but she didn't, and here we are. Because she's too damn stupid to know when to quit, too hooked on all the adoration and "atta girl" attention from fellow fundie wing nuts, and too drunk on idea of martyrdom and her righteous ass being "persecuted for Jesus" and bound for glory in the afterlife.
There won't be any getting through to a mindset like that. Just arrest her ass, seize her assets to satisfy the debt, put an end to her eleven-year pity-party, and be done with it.
Oh Kim, holding the line for the patriarchy is never going to work out well for you in the end. Thoughts and prayers.
Any bets on which side of the intelligence distribution Kim falls on? 🤔
She certainly didn't use any of her money for a makeover or a gym membership.