When asked whether jailing was appropriate for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, Dr. Ben Carson said, “Well jail seems a little extreme. I think what we need to look at is how do we stop this kind of thing from being a continuation. When the Supreme Court made its decision anyone should have known that this kind of thing was going to occur, and it’s going to continue to escalate." He continued, “And Congress now has a responsibility to step up to the plate and enact legislation that will protect the First Amendment rights of all Americans. That’s the reason that we have divided government. When one branch does something that tilts the balance, the other branches need to pitch in and correct the situation. This is a serious problem.”
Joe Rigney asks ten questions to Christians who think that Kim Davis is violating the "rule of law" by resisting the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. He says, "Who has violated the rule of law here? Is it Davis or the Supreme Court? If, as many conservatives argue, Obergefell v. Hodges is a legal abomination, and there is no right to same-sex “marriage” in the Constitution, isn’t Davis actually seeking to uphold the constitutional order, the one that we wrote down so we wouldn’t lose it (as opposed to the one that’s rattling around in Anthony Kennedy’s head, which, like all marbles, tends to get lost rather easily)?"
PORTLAND, Ore. — A second Oregon judge says he is no longer performing weddings after a federal judge spoke out against the state's ban on same-sex "marriage" last year. Washington County Judge Thomas Kohl says he stopped performing weddings as a judge last summer for faith-based reasons. Last week Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day publicly acknowledged that he stopped performing weddings due to religious beliefs on "gay marriage." Day is facing an ethics investigation due to that decision.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that he would be forced to accept same-sex "marriage" as legal if the federal government enacted a law allowing it. “If they want to come out from their cowardice to address this issue and they want to pass a law that says same-sex marriage is okay…then we all have to accept that same sex marriage is the law of the land,” he told Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe. But then he added, “Maybe I would disobey. Maybe I would pay the penalty for it.”
Dr. Harry L. Reeder III weighs in on the Kim Davis case. He says, "Kim Davis is right not to sign and affirm a so-called law affirming 'same-sex marriage' with the devastations, sexual anarchy and relational carnage it will bring. Furthermore, she should be commended for not resigning to go quietly away which many would desire. Then admirably she is willing to suffer the persecution of judicial tyranny, thereby forcing a nation to address the Constitutionality of this issue and professing Christians to address it personally."
MOREHEAD, Ky. — A county clerk in Kentucky was found in contempt of court and jailed for several days over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was released Tuesday. She'll return to work Friday or Monday, her lawyers say. Davis' lawyer refused to say Tuesday whether Davis would obey Bunning's order that she not interfere with marriage licensing in her office upon her return to work. "Kim Davis cannot and will not violate her conscience," said Mat Staver, with the Christian firm Liberty Counsel. He said Davis is loyal to God and to her job but refused to elaborate.
Kim Davis’s deputy clerks have been busy since their boss was hauled to jail, issuing 10 marriage licenses, including seven to same-sex couples, her employee Brian Mason said on Wednesday. And if Davis tells him to stop after she returns to work, Mason said he’ll tell her he can’t obey her, and instead must follow a federal judge’s order to continue issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
Bryan Fischer explains why Kim Davis is one of the few government officials who is NOT breaking the law. He says, "A corollary to the maxim that we are a nation of laws is that we are decidedly NOT a nation of 'rulings.' A court ruling is not a 'law,' it is a 'ruling.' It may have the force of law due to the abject acquiescence of a meekly compliant people, but it is not a law. A 'law' is not a 'law' unless it is enacted according to constitutional procedure. Under our Constitution, courts have no power to make or change law, none whatsoever."
RALEIGH, North Carolina — Thirty-two of North Carolina’s 670 magistrates have refused to perform same-sex “marriages”—and there’s nothing anyone can do about it—yet. In June, North Carolina became one of two states to create a law exempting magistrates, deeds workers, and others from having to perform marriage ceremonies if they have religious objections. The law then exempts such workers from any marriage ceremonies for a period of six months once they let their superiors know of their decision. Homosexual activist groups are urging same-sex couples to sue the state to "overturn" the law. No lawsuits have yet been filed.
MOREHEAD, Ky. — After spending five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as Friday. The apostolic Christian, now a symbol of strong religious conviction to thousands across the globe, would not say whether she would allow licenses to continue to be issued or try to block them once again, defying a federal court order that could send her back to jail.
GRAYSON, Ky. — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed last week after she defied a court’s order that she issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was ordered released on Tuesday. In a two-page order issued Tuesday, the judge who sent her to jail, David L. Bunning of Federal District Court, said he would release Ms. Davis because he was satisfied that her office was “fulfilling its obligation to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.” Judge Bunning ordered that Ms. Davis “shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.” He said any such action would be regarded as “a violation” of his release order.
John Kasich, who "opposes gay marriage," thinks a Kentucky clerk should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. "She's not running a church. I wouldn't force this on a church, but in terms of her responsibility, I think she has to comply," said Kasich, Ohio governor and a GOP presidential candidate. He doesn't think she should sit in jail, he said, but "I think she should follow the law."
This afternoon at 3 PM ET, Mike Huckabee will hold a rally in support of Kim Davis at the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Kentucky. Huckabee also created and signed a petition asking that Davis be released from jail. The petition reads, "Dear President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, & Judge Bunning: Immediately release Kim Davis from federal custody. Exercising Religious Liberty should never be a crime in America. This is a direct attack on our God-given, constitutional rights."
On Monday, Kim Davis asked the Kentucky governor to immediately free her from jail, according to court documents obtained by CNN. "We would like them to release her from jail and provide reasonable, sensible accommodation so she can do her job," one of her lawyers, Horatio Mihet, said in a statement. "That would be taking her name off of marriage licenses in Rowan County and allowing her deputies to issue the licenses."
A Navy chaplain accused of failing to show “tolerance and respect” toward homosexual sailors has been cleared of all wrongdoing and will not be removed from the military. “I am relieved the Navy sided with me,” Lt. Cmdr. Wes Modder said.
The Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to comply with a Supreme Court decision and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples was fighting "judicial tyranny," former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on ABC's "This Week." Huckabee has defended Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who said she would not follow a federal judge's orders to comply with the Supreme Court's landmark same-sex "marriage" ruling, and said she is upholding state law. He said he believes the ruling is unconstitutional and has called for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex "marriages."
Friday, September 4, 2015, Alabama Christians gathered at the Alabama Supreme Court to pray for Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, the AL Supreme Court, Governor Bentley, the pastors and churches of America, the State of Alabama and the Nation.
Former Arkansas Governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has issued a statement in support of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. He says, "Kim is asking the perfect question: 'Under what law am I authorized to issue homosexual couples a marriage license?' That simple question is giving many in Congress a civics lesson that they never got in grade school. The Supreme Court cannot and did not make a law. They only made a ruling on a law. Congress makes the laws. Because Congress has made no law allowing for same sex marriage, Kim does not have the Constitutional authority to issue a marriage license to homosexual couples."
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky county clerk has appealed a judge's decision to put her in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Attorneys for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis officially appealed the ruling to the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sunday. The three page motion does not include arguments as to why Davis should be released but amends Davis' earlier appeal of the judge's order.
As Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis began her third day as an inmate at the Carter County Detention Center on Saturday, having chosen indefinite imprisonment over issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, around 300 people gathered on the lawn outside. "She won't bow, I promise you," Davis' husband, Joe, told the crowd. "She sends her love to each and every one of you all. And this is what she said, 'All is well. Tell them to hold their head high because I am.'"
SALEM, Ore. — Marion County Judge Vance Day is being investigated by a judicial fitness commission in part over his refusal to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds, a spokesman for the judge said. When a federal court ruling in May 2014 claimed to make same-sex "marriage" legal in Oregon, Day instructed his staff to refer same-sex couples looking to "marry" to other judges, spokesman Patrick Korten said Friday.
A jailed Kentucky clerk asserts that the marriage licenses issued Friday to same-sex couples in Rowan County are void because she didn't authorize them, her attorney said. Attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel said the licenses are "not worth paper that they are written on" and promised to appeal the contempt order that sent clerk Kim Davis to jail on Thursday. The marriage licenses in the county usually have Davis' signature on them, but the ones handed out Friday by her deputies did not have any signature. The county attorney and lawyers for the same-sex couples said they are legal and valid despite the lack of a signature.
On Friday night, September 4th, prayer for Jailed Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama, and the Nation will be held on the front stairs of the Alabama Supreme Court building (300 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery 36104) from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (II Chronicles 7:14)
Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he wished a Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, was not jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but he added that the Supreme Court has ruled and it is "the law of the land." "You have to go with it. The decision's been made, and that is the law of the land," he said Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Dr. James White spends some time discussing today’s events in the jailing of Kim Davis, and then goes back into his review of James Brownson’s presentation on Romans 1.