{"id":10738,"date":"2015-08-28T02:33:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T02:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2015-08-28T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:29:00","slug":"read-your-oath-of-office-mme-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10738","title":{"rendered":"Read your oath of office, Mme. Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/same-sex-marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10739\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/same-sex-marriage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex-marriage\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/same-sex-marriage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/same-sex-marriage.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim Davis took an oath when she became a county clerk in Kentucky to uphold the constitutions of her state and her nation.<\/p>\n<p>The oath, I&#8217;m quite willing to suggest, didn&#8217;t include any exemptions for her religious faith.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it becomes imperative that she fulfill all the terms of the oath she took.<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s refusing to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she&#8217;s refusing to grant marriage certificates to gay couples. She cites her religious belief opposing gay marriage and the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s protection of religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>I get that Kim Davis&#8217;s Christian faith is important to her. Mine is important to me as well.<\/p>\n<p>But she took an oath to uphold the law. What&#8217;s more, the U.S. Supreme Court this year has ruled that gay marriage is legal in all 50 states. That includes Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, Potter County Clerk Julie Smith and Randall County Clerk Renee Calhoun declared they would issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples who request them. I also would have applauded either or both of them had they resigned if their religious faith interfered with their public oath.<\/p>\n<p>Davis should resign from her office, as some county clerks have done around the country. She cannot serve in an elected <em>public<\/em> office without carrying out all the duties that the office requires.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/kim-davis-kentucky-clerk-again-denies-license?utm_content=buffercaf60&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Davis took an oath when she became a county clerk in Kentucky to uphold the constitutions of her state and her nation. The oath, I&#8217;m quite willing to suggest, didn&#8217;t include any exemptions for her religious faith. Thus, it becomes imperative that she fulfill all the terms of the oath she took. But she&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read your oath of office, Mme. Clerk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,14],"tags":[1863,4954,4984],"class_list":["post-10738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-gay-marriage","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}