Gay Marriage
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So true. Thank the founding fathers and our Constitution.
- Preamble: "We the people ..." No gods needed.
- Article VI: No religious test for any office or public trust.
- 1st Amendment
- 1797 Treaty of Tripoli ("The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."): Submitted to the Senate by President John Adams and ratified unanimously by the Senate.
- Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802: Where he states the 1st amendments free exercise and establishment clauses built a wall of separation between church and state.
Can go on and on ...
I have been told I am un-American when I stick up for our secular Constitution. I do not understand why. I want our democratic republic, they on the other hand want a theocracy.
xUT
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Of course, one big difference:
Tonya Parker in 2012:
Though she chooses not to perform the ceremonies, Parker said she passes marriage ceremonies on to other judges so they can be completed.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/23/10488677-gay-dallas-judge-wont-perform-straight-marriages
Kim Davis in 2015:
Kim Davis, the Kentucky court clerk who has repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, will remain jailed for contempt after refusing a compromise that would have allowed deputy clerks to issue the licenses.
Five of the six deputies had agreed to issue the licenses -- only her son would not relent -- but Davis refused to authorize them to do so.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/kentucky_clerk_kim_davis_appea.html
Ms Tree
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In leery of the reasonable accommodation idea. Why not just do the job one was hired to do? No one is making her be a clerk. One one is making the lady be a flight attendant. Can do the job then fine one you can do. A company should not need to accommodate people for their bias or bigotry.
Dog Wonder
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Is there such a thing as a DINO?
Court rulings have held that companies that are able to can be required to make reasonable accommodation for individuals' religious beliefs
Personally, I'm with ya, don't want to serve booze, don't get a job serving booze, etc
Personally, I'm with ya, don't want to serve booze, don't get a job serving booze, etc
George Will:
But surely it is a wholesome rule that executives should obey legitimate court orders ... (Kim Davis) made a choice, unquestionably, her faith is important to her but evidently her paycheck is also because she did not resign her office. We’ve been here before, in 1892, a Massachusetts policeman claimed that his constitutional rights of speech and association had been violated by rules governing and restricting political activity by police. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts head against him in an opinion written by a Massachusetts judge named Oliver Wendell Holmes who said the policeman has a Constitutional right to engage in politics, the policeman does not have a Constitutional right to be a policeman. She has that same problem. ”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/06/george-will-compares-kim-davis-to-segregationist-george-wallace/
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/gay-texas-judge-refuses-perform-marriage-ceremonies/story?id=15784189
Too bad the lesbian Texas judge didnt face any charges or jail time for 3 years for not performing heterosexual marriages. Liberal lunacy at its finest.
Too bad the lesbian Texas judge didnt face any charges or jail time for 3 years for not performing heterosexual marriages. Liberal lunacy at its finest.
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