{"id":10998,"date":"2015-09-15T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2015-09-15T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:44:47","slug":"a-compromise-in-rowan-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10998","title":{"rendered":"A compromise in Rowan County?"},"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\/09\/Kim-Davis-450x253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11000\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Kim-Davis-450x253-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Kim-Davis-450x253\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Kim-Davis-450x253-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Kim-Davis-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim Davis went back to work Monday in Rowan County, Ky.<\/p>\n<p>The question loomed: Would she do her taxpayer-funded job, which includes issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no, but actually yes.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, the rogue county clerk who spent a few days in the slammer when a federal judge found her in contempt of court for railing to issue the licenses, said she wouldn&#8217;t do issue the licenses herself, but wouldn&#8217;t stand in the way of her deputy clerks who chose to do <em>their<\/em> jobs on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>You know, that sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.<\/p>\n<p>If only, though, Davis would understand a couple of key points in this ridiculous sideshow.<\/p>\n<p>One is that her religious faith isn&#8217;t being challenged. Two is that she took an oath to serve the entire public, and that includes gay citizens who, according to the nation&#8217;s highest court, are entitled to the same rights as all U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>If she can&#8217;t perform all the duties she took an oath to perform, she ought to quit.<\/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 went back to work Monday in Rowan County, Ky. The question loomed: Would she do her taxpayer-funded job, which includes issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples? Well, no, but actually yes. Davis, the rogue county clerk who spent a few days in the slammer when a federal judge found her in contempt of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A compromise in Rowan County?<\/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":[13,1],"tags":[5422,2923,4088,4472],"class_list":["post-10998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-kim-davis","tag-marriage-equality","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998","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=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11001,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}