Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
"Davis said she’s been “called Hitler, I’ve been called [a] hypocrite, I’ve been called a homophobe.”
“I’ve been called things and names that I didn’t even say when I was in the world. Those names don’t hurt me,” Davis said. “What probably hurt me the worst is when someone tells me that my God does not love me or that my God is not happy with me, that I am a hypocrite of a Christian.”"
Lmao, so you don’t mind being called Hitler, but being called a fake Christian - now that’s insulting! Tells you everything you need to know
This would then apply to all religions, correct?
She is so messed up. Religious marriage is separate from state licensing of relationships. Religion can discriminate away, but the state serves all its people.
She can’t argue she was acting on behalf of the state, and literally says it was based on her personal beliefs how can she then argue she has no personal liability?
I think that firing her would have been the better answer though, if she won’t do the job then fire her and hire someone without a conflict.
You work for the government, you are acting as the government, paid for by taxes from your constituents.
You do not get to decide which laws to follow. Fuck off Kim.
She has no reason to speak of morals when you look at how poorly she practices what she screeches.
And the next one is removing rights from women. And up next, slavery 2: Orange Boogaloo…
What the actual fuck America.
And this Ladys and Gentlr-people is, why LGB without the T is simply shooting in your own foot. First they go for trans people, but republicans will not stop there. They want to see all of the LGBTQ community dead or at least completely stripped of their rights and hiding at home. Just because you fought with the Republicans to make the life for trans people hell that doesn’t mean, that you aren’t next.
The target order seems to be.
Socialists -> immigrants -> other races -> lgbtq+ -> womenAlso poor people take priorty over rich people.
Segregate and oppress?
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how much forehead she has? She could star in the next Coneheads movie!
Classic hillbilly genes, caused by generations of pickling their chromosomes in rotgut moonshine.
She certainly looks like the type of person that gets upset when other people are having fun. Not very conelike to me unfortunately. Narfle the Garthak!
Freak
This fucking cunt again?!
My reaction as well. I was just fine living out the rest of my life, not having to see that smugshot again. But here we are.
So could she have refused to serve a black person or an Asian person based on her personal religious views that she doesn’t like black or Asian people?
Like we’re not going to see interracial marriage struck down after they do away with the filthy, eeevil gaysex.
Mark my words, it will be under the guise of “national security” and it will start with a big spiel from the administration how “terrorists” are getting into the country by marrying “US citizens” (even though imgiration hasn’t worked that way in like, a century) and they will swear it’s not about race… while using race to identify these scary terrorists who want to eat your children and rape your pets.
We won’t, but for specific, self-serving reasons.
In his opinion for Dobbs, Thomas listed several cases he wants to revisit, including Obergefell. Notably absent was Loving, which is the case that set interracial marriage in stone. Thing is, if you follow his reasoning, Loving should fall to the exact same logic. The fact that he left it out is telling.
I don’t believe for a moment that everything isn’t on the table for repeal, destruction or revocation. It just takes a phone call and a new boat and Thomas will not just revisit Loving, he and his cohorts will use it like toilet paper overnight. They just can’t move too fast, they have to give the population time to adapt to changes or wait until everyone is too distracted by some manufactured crisis. Literally, our only hope is they misjudge or move too fast and create an actual armed movement marching on Washington. (Like, they would need some kind of huge army deployed to DC to protect the president and cabinet and courts in that case… can you imagine that?)
And it doesn’t matter if Thomas is in an interracial marriage, the ruling class has proven time and time again they are immune to consequence and law.
I think they’ll try everything to push for a supermajority next cycle to just write a new “more christian” constitution, á la Fidesz, even if that requires them to break laws.
We’ve already seen them make soft attempts at it by “accidentally” removing chunks of the constitution from the .gov websites, and this is how they started exploring the feasibility of most of their current overreaches, with probing attacks, with “soft” insurrections, with suggestions of doing the things they’re actively doing now, just to gauge how far along we are and what kind of pushback they would actually get. (Hint: it’s not enough. Sit the fuck down Booker, Schumer, Jeffries… you’re useless fucks that need to be hauled out like the garbage you are.)
I’d love to see Clarence Thomas go home to his ugly bulldog white wife, and explain that he voted to abolish their marriage, and now that it’s an official abomination, she must move out of the house immediately.
That’s the beauty of using masking terms like “terrorists” like Israel is doing to justify their genocide.
You can make “terrorism” the most extreme crime that anyone can commit, a crime that immediately disqualifies you from due process or human rights, then just utterly fail to define what “terrorism” means, so you can slap it on any youtuber who criticizes the government or entire neighborhoods of hispanic or black people so you can start segregating and arresting and creating labor camps… another sneaky way to continue slavery.
Poorly defined, unscientific or non-factual policy is designed to enforce “rules for thee, not for me” and is one of the foundational cornerstones of fascism and oligarchy.
In her mind, she does.
I feel like this is already been litigated. Anyone can refuse to do anything due to their personal beliefs, but they can’t actually stop people from getting the service from someone else.
And I do believe you actually have to have already made the objection prior to your employment, otherwise you’re now refusing to do part of your job.
Roe and Casey were litigated until someone decided they should get a redo.
Do you want American Civil War II to go hot? Because this is how you get Civil War II to go hot.
I’m convinced that’s exactly what they want. Or at least, they think that’s what they want, I am ll doubtful that a great deal of thought has actually being put into it.
If it actually happened they would be complaining within about 3 days about the lack of food on the shelves and the lack of fuel in gas stations.
Who’s going to heat it up? The marginalized people who are vehemently anti-gun and pro-talking everything out. Or the people who’ve been jerking it to rifles for the past 40 years and are just waiting for someone to open fire on?
Yooooo… This bitch is still doing the same, heinous shit? A decade later? Why don’t these pieces of shit just get fucking lives or hobbies or something? They’re like goddamned ghouls, hanging around and smelling of shit. Like. Fuck. GO AWAY.
Methinks she’s being funded by those organizations.
This has the particular stink of Citizens United for sire.
What a horrible, terrible, evil piece of shit of a person. A lot of people serve other people they don’t like every day, it’s called having a fucking job, no need to make a federal fucking case out of it you stupid selfish childish pious asshole.
I worked in retail and there was this one idiot that ended up getting fired because he couldn’t get over his racism. He was moaning about immigrants on Facebook afterwards. He didn’t lose his job to immigrants, he lost his job because he was being rude to Asian people who definitely weren’t interested in his job, as they almost certainly already had better paying once.
These people are their own worst enemies.
Not ”a lot people," literally EVERYBODY has to deal with people they don’t like, every single fucking day.
What’s with these MAGAs, who are so entitled they think the entire world owes them a life without anything slightly unpleasant crossing their paths, or they will KILL YOU?
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That time will come. Fascists always end up the same way, 6ft under. They just like playing with fire
Can we get someone who believes in Jakub elected as county clerk somewhere in the US South? Then they can deny marriage licenses to all the white people for being inhuman.
I can’t wait until Clarence Thomas decides in favor of legislation that bans interracial marriages. I can’t wait!
Spy magazine back in the early '90s ran a great cartoon captioned “Clarence Thomas greets the morning” which showed him on his front porch bending down to pick up the newspaper next to a negro stable boy lawn statue.
