U.S. Politics

[bojanglesman]

https://twitter.com/nexttokimdavis

Hilarious.

[Fenwyr]

Bitch got arrested.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriage-kim-davis/index.html

[Ignatius J Reilly]

Oh excrement.  That's a terrible decision by the judge, although he's in a tough position.  This is going to get so much worse now.

[Johnny English]

Do all people in Kentucky look like this, or just the religious nutters?

[Badger]

Do all people in Kentucky look like this, or just the religious nutters?

Yes.

[AlioTheFool]

She claims she's going to stay in jail "as long as it takes." Probably not the best move.

I know being an atheist/agnostic is the new normal, but it pisses me off when anti-religion people go on and on about how stupid people of faith are. Then I see idiots like this.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

She claims she's going to stay in jail "as long as it takes." Probably not the best move.

I know being an atheist/agnostic is the new normal, but it pisses me off when anti-religion people go on and on about how stupid people of faith are. Then I see idiots like this.

I have zero problem with her doing this if she's willing to recognize that she has to accept the punishment for refusing to do her job.  I disagree with her stance 100%, but I see way too many of these people who preach and preach and have no real backbone behind it.  If you're going to take this hardline stance that God is commanding you to do something, then freaking do it and suffer the punishment.

[Miamipuck]

Is her last name Gambini?

[AlioTheFool]

I have zero problem with her doing this if she's willing to recognize that she has to accept the punishment for refusing to do her job.  I disagree with her stance 100%, but I see way too many of these people who preach and preach and have no real backbone behind it.  If you're going to take this hardline stance that God is commanding you to do something, then freaking do it and suffer the punishment.

That's a fair point. It's still stupid because the end result is she just never leaves jail (though it's more likely she just loses her job and this all ends).

[Johnny English]

She can't lose her job unless she's impeached, apparently she's elected rather than employed. I don't know when the next election is due to happen but I suspect that there will be a huge amount of effort to have her re-elected.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

That's a fair point. It's still stupid because the end result is she just never leaves jail (though it's more likely she just loses her job and this all ends).

If she gets relieved of duty and released from prison without ever wavering her stance, she's going to be an instant millionaire.  She'll get invited to speak at every Christian conference there is and donations will pour in.

[AlioTheFool]

I recall seeing she was elected before, but completely forgot when I posted that earlier. So she's going to be a martyr for the anti-gay movement. Spectacular.

[Miamipuck]

If they're going to use that disgusting hag as a model for anti gay marriage stuff, that's fantastic, it's only hurting their cause. The more stupid crap the religious right does the better. It alerts people that don't ordinarily care to what intolerant assholes are up to.

[AlioTheFool]

If they're going to use that disgusting hag as a model for anti gay marriage stuff, that's fantastic, it's only hurting their cause. The more stupid crap the religious right does the better. It alerts people that don't ordinarily care to what intolerant assholes are up to.

My only problem with it is that shitheads like this give the vast majority of people of faith a bad name--who aren't anything like this.

[Johnny English]

My only problem with it is that shitheads like this give the vast majority of people of faith a bad name--who aren't anything like this.

I believe the stock response to that is something along the lines of "if the [faith] community won't speak out and do something about their problems, then they must all take the blame and responsibility for them".