probate judges opposed to gay marriage stand firm

[niyad]

(******* "It's a deep-rooted conviction; my conscience won't allow me*****" . . . . .

and it is MY "deeply-rooted conviction that MY taxes should not have to go to pay the salaries of those refusing to do their jobs on the taxpayers' dime!!)

probate judges opposed to gay marriage stand firm

Erica Seagraves, right, has a discussion with Malinda Andrews on the steps of the Rowan County Judicial Center Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Morehead, Ky. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is refusing to issue marriage licenses to all couples until further notice as an objection to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage. The high court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states in a 5-4 ruling Friday.


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TROY, Ala. (AP) — Gay couples can petition, protest and even sue — but that won't change Probate Judge Wes Allen's mind: He is not issuing them marriage licenses, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that marriage is a constitutional right equally held by all Americans. Allen is the probate judge in Pike County, a county in southern Alabama with a population of about 33,000. He is among a handful of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Supreme Court and refusing to issue a license to anyone, gay or straight.

Allen and other probate judges in the state cite Alabama Code section 30-1-9, which says marriage licenses "may" be issued by them — not that they must issue them. Consequently, Allen says, he is "not in violation of any Supreme Court order. ... We're just going to hold the course and not issue any marriage licenses."

Allen says that he believes marriage "is one man, one woman." In Kentucky on Tuesday, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis shut her blinds at work to block the view of rainbow-clad protesters outside. They carried flags and signs saying, "You don't own marriage" and chanted, "Do your job!"


Moments later, Davis told a lesbian couple who walked in asking for a license to try another county.******* "It's a deep-rooted conviction; my conscience won't allow me*****" to grant gay-marriage licenses, Davis told The Associated Press. "It goes against everything I hold dear, everything sacred in my life."

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[yardwork]

1. It goes against everything sacred in her life?

Has she been denying marriage licenses to previously divorced people? If not, why not?

Jesus specifically said that divorce and hypocrisy are wrong. He said nothing at all about gay people.

[niyad]

2. the hypocricy is simply asounding.

[yardwork]

3. The right wing churches have weak minded people all stirred up.

[niyad]

4. sadly, you are quite correct.

[shenmue]

5. "I stink as a human being," they should say

[niyad]

6. they should have to wear signs declaring their bigotry, hatred and ignorance.