The attorney representing Ms. Kim Davis stated it is important to allow all forms of conscience to be honored and it was her right to be forthright in her expression of her conscience. He said nothing about the conscience of a gay couple longing to be married. What happened to that conscience? That moral conscience doesn't matter?
Her attorney expressed what is known as a couple standard. Somehow Ms. Davis' conscience sanctioned by god is more important than the moral conscience of gay couples longing to be married. Why is god absent in the morality of marriage for gay couples? Because Ms. Davis says it is?
If a heterosexual couple that proclaimed to be atheists wanted a marriage license I sincerely think Ms. Davis would have an objection.
September 1, 2015
By David Weigel
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (click here) has given a mixed endorsement to a home state county clerk whose refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has become national news.
"I think people who do stand up and are making a stand to say that they believe in something is an important part of the American way," Paul told Boston Herald Radio during a three-day campaign swing through the Northeast.
When asked about Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis's ongoing refusal to issue licenses, in defiance of the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, Paul's campaign pointed to his Monday interview with the conservative Herald. The question was succinct, asking if Paul "back[ed] Kim Davis and her religious right" to defy the ruling. Paul's answer took him across the plains of legal theory before ending with the "making a stand" statement....
There are advocates within the Catholic faith that hold all people within their understanding of the family of God. They do so in defense of their presence on Earth and living a good and decent life no different than established standards. That point of view is often overlooked when examining the conscience of the church. This is not new since Pope Francis was first inaugurated. These advocates have sometimes suffered for their ideals.
September 1, 2015
Her attorney expressed what is known as a couple standard. Somehow Ms. Davis' conscience sanctioned by god is more important than the moral conscience of gay couples longing to be married. Why is god absent in the morality of marriage for gay couples? Because Ms. Davis says it is?
If a heterosexual couple that proclaimed to be atheists wanted a marriage license I sincerely think Ms. Davis would have an objection.
September 1, 2015
By David Weigel
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (click here) has given a mixed endorsement to a home state county clerk whose refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has become national news.
"I think people who do stand up and are making a stand to say that they believe in something is an important part of the American way," Paul told Boston Herald Radio during a three-day campaign swing through the Northeast.
When asked about Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis's ongoing refusal to issue licenses, in defiance of the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, Paul's campaign pointed to his Monday interview with the conservative Herald. The question was succinct, asking if Paul "back[ed] Kim Davis and her religious right" to defy the ruling. Paul's answer took him across the plains of legal theory before ending with the "making a stand" statement....
There are advocates within the Catholic faith that hold all people within their understanding of the family of God. They do so in defense of their presence on Earth and living a good and decent life no different than established standards. That point of view is often overlooked when examining the conscience of the church. This is not new since Pope Francis was first inaugurated. These advocates have sometimes suffered for their ideals.
September 1, 2015
...The 79-year-old (click here) said he had told
the pope how he had recently blessed a divorced couple as well as a
homosexual couple, saying "he listened, he is open to all those things.
He said that to bless is to speak well of God to people."
Gaillot
said he now devotes much of his time to helping and defending migrants
and the pope, he said, told him "continue, what you do (for the
downtrodden) is good".
Francis
has been urging the Catholic Church to adopt a more compassionate
approach to those considered to have sinned, such as divorced people who
remarry or practising homosexuals.
On
Tuesday he called on priests to pardon women who have abortions during
the upcoming Jubilee year -- overruling hardline traditionalists within
the Church in the process.
Gaillot,
who courted controversy in the past by saying he was unable to judge
women who had abortions or gay people -- a message echoed by Pope
Francis in 2013 -- now largely uses the Internet to continue his defence
of human rights.
The point is a spiritual life takes all forms. It is the beauty of the USA. The USA would protect people like Bishop Jacques Gaillot to believe as he does. The USA allows for people to carry out their understanding of a spiritual life so long as it does not harm others. Peaceful practice of any religion and/or spirituality is accepted in the USA. The 'duties' of the state have to be homogenous to include all Americans not simply those a clerk might approve of within her limited understanding.
Ms. Davis does not belong in her current job. I would be rather surprised to find her job description included discriminating and upholding double standards.
The point is a spiritual life takes all forms. It is the beauty of the USA. The USA would protect people like Bishop Jacques Gaillot to believe as he does. The USA allows for people to carry out their understanding of a spiritual life so long as it does not harm others. Peaceful practice of any religion and/or spirituality is accepted in the USA. The 'duties' of the state have to be homogenous to include all Americans not simply those a clerk might approve of within her limited understanding.
Ms. Davis does not belong in her current job. I would be rather surprised to find her job description included discriminating and upholding double standards.
