{"id":10838,"date":"2015-09-04T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2015-09-04T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T00:48:14","slug":"clerk-goes-to-jail-for-violating-her-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10838","title":{"rendered":"Clerk goes to jail for violating her oath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

\"davis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kim Davis story is driving me batty.<\/p>\n

She’s now in jail because she won’t perform the duties as county clerk that are required of her. She took an oath to perform them. Now she’s saying she cannot because her “conscience” won’t allow her to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.<\/p>\n

A judge found her in contempt of court and threw her into the slammer.<\/p>\n

Mike Huckabee has entered the fray<\/a>\u00a0by declaring that Davis’s jailing proves that the government has criminalized Christianity. The former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential candidate says Davis is within her rights to invoke her “religious liberty” by refusing to follow the mandate set down by the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Huck is wrong.<\/p>\n

Davis’s religious liberty is not being challenged here. She is free to pray as she wishes. She is free to attend whatever church she wants. She is not<\/em> free to flout the oath of office she took that says she shall uphold state and federal<\/em> law.<\/p>\n

The federal law now includes a decision by the Supreme Court that says gay couples are entitled under the U.S. Constitution to be married. But then Huckabee dismisses that ruling, declaring on Davis’s behalf that, by golly, that decision merely comes from “nine unelected federal judges.”<\/p>\n

Davis, as county clerk in Rowan County, Ky., is required to follow that law.<\/p>\n

She hasn’t done so. She’s now in jail.<\/p>\n

She needs to quit. Or … she needs to be removed from office.<\/p>\n

Let’s put this story to bed. It’s gone on long enough.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kim Davis story is driving me batty. She’s now in jail because she won’t perform the duties as county clerk that are required of her. She took an oath to perform them. Now she’s saying she cannot because her “conscience” won’t allow her to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. A judge found her … Continue reading Clerk goes to jail for violating her oath<\/span> →<\/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":[8,13,14,15],"tags":[5430,5422,5431,3062,4954,4984],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-county-clerk","tag-kim-davis","tag-marriage-license","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","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=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}