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.
They should have this taken care of in a jiffy.
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.
Interracial marriage is on the table too with these fascists.
Not just interracial marriage, they don’t want people to be able to become citizens through marriage.
The irony of them “defending” US citizenship like it’s some holy sacrament reserved for the elite, while, in the process and because of all their actions, the country is imploding into the filthiest fucking piece of shit on the planet that no one will want to touch with a ten foot pole anyways… Get me the fuck out of here.
The citizens through marriage thing will definitely be allowed - on a case by case basis, and provided they bring benefit to the country.
That benefit, of course, will be eugenic based, and entirely centered around women marrying approved American men.
It’s important to remember that everything is based on eugenics and property.
They dont want people to become citizens by birth either.
Or birth.
Oh that’ll stay, it will just become a bit more complicated. Luckily here I have a handy chart you can reference though:
Clarence cant wait to divorce ginni thomas.
Clarence Thomas: this is fine, rules do not apply to me or my white wife Virginia.
And Clarence Thomas will gleefully vote to kill it
She can’t take half during the divorce if your marriage is deemed illegal, null and void.
Whilst married to a white jan6 individual.
Another 3 to 6 decision then. It’s getting kind of repetitive.
Here we go.
time to look up asylum requirements for me and my husband in the EU lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_the_European_Union The EU has their own problems with LGBTQIA+ peeps, and it really depends on which member country one would live in, and travel to, both legally and culturally.
We’d be looking into France as our first choice. My husband doesn’t speak any foreign languages, but I can pass the A2 exam in French (and I’m actively studying to further this).
If France wasn’t an option, the list of first to tertiary choices would be Spain, Portugal, and Italy last (I’m ethnically half Italian with family living there; my grandfather was an Italian immigrant, but Italy doesn’t allow homosexual marriage).
I’d be wary of Italy, it’s currently governed by actual fascists (or rather “post-fascists”).
Like, go to the Wikipedia article of the ruling party “Brothers of Italy”, click on the party in the entry " Preceded by", do this twice again and you arrive at Mussolini’s Republican Fascist Party.
The way things are going the only safe place for all queer people will be a rowing boat on the ocean, through at this point maybe time for queers to start exploring the idea of building space rockets and heading out into space to find a new home the safest choice sigh 😞
Or blue state succession.
It’s a great day to be an asshole.
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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.
Now there’s a breakable jaw if I’ve ever seen one.
Could we just get government out of the marriage game? It seems to be the source of all the problems. They simply shouldn’t care.
Even if we don’t this is such a simple concept: Marriage is a contract. The requirements for a contract is consenting adults. How can they make gender determine who can sign a contract? That would be unreasonable.
I think you’re second point is more important. The religious part of marriage is actually meaningless in the eyes of the law even today, you still need to apply for a marriage certificate with the government.
I think we just need to extend that to just be a cohabitation/shared asset contract for any two+ people. It makes a lot of legal sense to have a defined “family unit” for medical/legal/financial reasons, but it shouldn’t overlap with religious concepts.
Religion is a monstrous evil.
But it’s stress, pain and suffering for those they don’t like!!
But Jesus said gays bad!
He didn’t say anything about love!
Oh, wait…
I’d disagree here. Jesus was a Rabbi. And Rabbi are usually required to be married.
But the early church was extremely anti-woman.
Mary Magdalene is always portrayed as a whore who just sort of hung around.
But she seems to be more important than that. Especially in the dead sea scrolls.
Paul, or Saul, on the other hand, seems to have been the source of the anti-woman aspects of the early church.
As someone raised in the Baptist faith, but got the hell out, Baptists fucking LOVE Saul/Paul and he’s basically 60%+ of their entire schtick. Largely because he was such a staunch stickler of a person. I mean God supposedly made him blind so he’d stop being an asshole.
It didn’t work apparently. He just read the writing on the wall and changed his strategy for enacting his loathsome world view.
dead sea scrolls
You are conflating the dead sea scrolls with the Nag Hammadi library. The Dead Sea Scrolls do not contain any Christian texts, only Jewish texts from around the time of Jesus. The Nag Hammadi library contains a number of texts typically described as “gnostic” and some of these include teachings attributed to Mary Magdalene.
I do get the two confused, yes. Thank you.
i thought jesus was trans though, as parthenogenesis necessitates a female offspring
si would be eve, as she’s a clone of Adam.
okay see this is my first problem. that means he would taste great. I’ve tasted their jesus. jesus is dry and crumbly. i’ve also tasted ribs. are ribs dry and crumbly?
That five-headed bitch can eat all of the shit. All of it.
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how much forehead she has? She could star in the next Coneheads movie!
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!
Classic hillbilly genes, caused by generations of pickling their chromosomes in rotgut moonshine.
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.
