koshergrl
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Opinions are just that. Opinions. State legislatures and Congress make laws. the SC issues OPINIONS not facts.The opinion of five is the law here, dumbass. The highest law in the land...There is no law. There is an OPINION of 5 people. That's it. The STATES made LAWS and were overruled with an OPINION which holds NO WATER.Odium doesn't believe in the rule of law. He believes in the Rule of Bitch, and Bigots...This is fucking ridiculous. She has to follow the law. She does not, as a court clerk, get to make or interpret the law. I am not crazy about homos getting hitched either. But if you start supporting shit like this then you undermine the rule of law.
Nope.If Kim Davis decided one day that her religion told her to stop marrying Jews....would you call her an anti-Semite?NOMblog: Kim Davis is Why We Must Fight
Indeed we must! I am no christian but support religious freedom!
Its up to her who she marries white,black,asian,jew,straight idc....Odium hates Jews too. Maybe instead of Jews try white people. That'll really get him excited.If Kim Davis decided one day that her religion told her to stop marrying Jews....would you call her an anti-Semite?
It's the law. As distasteful as Supreme Court decisions can be sometimes, and they can be, the holding in a particular is the law of the land. I believe that the real power in our republic ought to lie with Congress, as they are the closest link to the people. I also believe that when courts have to decide whether a law runs afoul of the constitution they ought to presume that it is constitutional and only overturn the will of the people in extraordinary circumstances when it is clear that a law contravenes the constitution or exceeds the scope of Article II (ie, when exceeds its authority).
That being said, you obviously cannot pick and choose what legal decisions you are going to follow or not follow, as you are upsetting checks and balances by usurping Article III powers of the federal courts, undermining rule of law and public confidence, as there will be no certainty of law if we can just cast aside a court decision we do not like.
However, the foregoing is academic. This clerk is a public functionary and she is not allowing for equal protection as required under current and valid 14th Amendment jurisprudence. Yes, she has rights too. However, she does not get to deny others their rights just to exercise her own.
This is not even a close call. It is pretty fucking stupid that there is a conversation being held over this. If she refuses the court order she will be in contempt of the federal court order. She may even be removed, which will create a real constitutional clusterfuck if a federal judge attempts to somehow strip the power from a duly elected state official.
If she is sincere in her position, then she should do the decent thing and resign.
All of the clerks are with her, as are the people who elected her. People are sick of judges arbitrarily leveling crap laws against us.