Then atheists should have been forced under threat of jail, to pray in schools before the law was changed.
All people should be forced to agree with and follow bad laws or be jailed. Right?
Clerk won't give gay couple marriage license
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Then atheists should have been forced under threat of jail, to pray in schools before the law was changed.
All people should be forced to agree with and follow bad laws or be jailed. Right?
annabenedetti
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Davis was jailed for contempt of court.
Easy fix: Stop taking taxpayer money for a job she won't do and step down - or do her job.
Easy fix: Stop taking taxpayer money for a job she won't do and step down - or do her job.
Easy fix, fire her, then let her fight it out in court, really sick to see you want her in jail for following her conscience.
Quetzal
New member
Nah, personally a professional ultimatum would have been fine. "Due to changes in the law, you are required to do additional duties. If you feel this is in conflict with your personal views, you have X days until your position will be terminated due to legal blah blah blah."
Or something like that.
Foxfire
Well-known member
Using the power of office to enforce ones own religious beliefs is a violation of the 1st amendment.
That notwithstanding, she is quite free to believe whatever she chooses. Just not empowered to use the position of elected office to impose those beliefs on others.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Do try to focus. Quit making this about me.
She had choices, she knew what her options were, and she chose one.
Shes not enforcing them on other, she is not making them convert. She has also refused untill this is resolved to issue any to anyone even straight. There is established law already that a person cannot be compelled to act against their moral conscience.
See the law. They should fire her, and let her sue them for not accommodating her beliefs -not force her.
Its a travesty that she is in jail for this. You would all be crying bloody murder if you were thrown in jail for not acting against your conscience.
Foxfire
Well-known member
Ummmm she's elected. She can't be fired and she knows that!
yes, she is in jail, she is following her conscience, excellent witness.
I know your just so happy about it, too, what happened to your conscience?
Sure she can. Recall election
Only im thinking shes representing those who elected her. The way it should be.
I am a pragmatist. If the Muslims were going to cut off my head or gang rape me I think I would say the words to save my life.
You are so glib at posing questions to others. You answer your question and then I will answer it.
God is judging the heart and knows it.
She has a constitutional right to freedom of religion and reasonable accommodation for such, see the constitution and the law from EEOC on reasonable accommodation (already posted, look back) She cannot be compelled to act against her religion.
TracerBullet
New member
It is a sad that you think discrimination is worthy of respect
She can be impeached by the State legislature which is in recess right now.
Ok, do you think she should be in jail for this?
TracerBullet
New member
how many were willing to go to jail over the ending of segregation?
Selaphiel
Well-known member
You guys are acting as if she is some kind of martyr, which is ridiculous. No one is forcing her to work for an institutions that does something she disagrees with. She has no real principles, she wants to have her cake and eat it too. She wants their money, but refuse to do the job she is assigned to do. Not to mention that she is not exactly a beacon of the sanctity of marriage (as if that is a factor in marriage in a purely secular form anyway) herself, last time I checked she has married 4 times, 3 divorces.
Let me rephrase the last thing I wrote as a question:
Would you support her if she was a conservative Muslim who refused to issue a marriage certificate to a non-Muslim man and a Muslim woman?
If not, you are simply a hypocrite. The US is not a Christian theocracy, appealing to church laws or biblical principles is irrelevant. The only thing that matters for a person who wants to earn their living off of a government institution is to carry it out according to the laws of the secular government.
She's an elected official not a regular employee.
She is a martyr, she is in jail, that is what makes her one. She is in jail for failing to violate her conscience and for her religious beliefs.