The release of Kim Davis is not a surprise. She was due in front of the court today. You know, after the holiday.
Huckabee is just grandstanding. He knows there is no judge on any bench that will accept another person for jail time of another person.
There is no politics with the judge. He is carrying out the law as boring as that might be for most of the country.
I think what Huckabee needs is a witch hunt. You know, burning at the town square. Just like the good old days.
Now, you'll excuse me but the religious attitudes of the political right wing toward people of the same gender is very poor. The issue is love. It isn't about any real legal dilemma, it is love. The extremist views by Huckabee and his propaganda of hate is exactly the same as the witch trials.
The witch trials needed a scapegoat to maintain power. And believe it or not this happened on the very soil where the thirteen colonies declared their independence. Albeit, a century or two later, but, it is the same type of nasty power struggle where people were actually dead after the religious politics played out. The USA, even today, has it's shame in realizing hate crimes occurred taking the lives of the innocent. Matthew Shepard (click here) is never far from the minds of most when confronting this continued hate mongering of the LGBTQ community.
What the former governor of Arkansas did today is hate mongering. It has to stop. The courts have ruled on all the attempts by the political right wing of the USA trying to substitute church doctrine for the USA Constitution. If one really wants to analyze this mess it is actually treason. Substituting religious doctrine for the US Constitution regardless the exercise is treasonous. But, for the sake of civility no one calls it that, except for me.
Ms. Davis can be blessed by her religion all day long in her private space in her work place by having a Bible on her desk. But, when it comes to doing the business of the people she needs to do her job or find herself in jail yet again. After a few times of being jailed she can actually face prison and maybe that is what Huckabee is waiting for, it would bring in the donations wouldn't it?
The infamous Salem witch trials (click here) began during the spring of 1692, after a
group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be
possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As
a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special
court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch,
Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to
Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were
accused over the next several months. By September 1692, the hysteria
had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials. Though
the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against
accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness
lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch
trials would endure for centuries.
Huckabee is just grandstanding. He knows there is no judge on any bench that will accept another person for jail time of another person.
There is no politics with the judge. He is carrying out the law as boring as that might be for most of the country.
I think what Huckabee needs is a witch hunt. You know, burning at the town square. Just like the good old days.
Now, you'll excuse me but the religious attitudes of the political right wing toward people of the same gender is very poor. The issue is love. It isn't about any real legal dilemma, it is love. The extremist views by Huckabee and his propaganda of hate is exactly the same as the witch trials.
The witch trials needed a scapegoat to maintain power. And believe it or not this happened on the very soil where the thirteen colonies declared their independence. Albeit, a century or two later, but, it is the same type of nasty power struggle where people were actually dead after the religious politics played out. The USA, even today, has it's shame in realizing hate crimes occurred taking the lives of the innocent. Matthew Shepard (click here) is never far from the minds of most when confronting this continued hate mongering of the LGBTQ community.
What the former governor of Arkansas did today is hate mongering. It has to stop. The courts have ruled on all the attempts by the political right wing of the USA trying to substitute church doctrine for the USA Constitution. If one really wants to analyze this mess it is actually treason. Substituting religious doctrine for the US Constitution regardless the exercise is treasonous. But, for the sake of civility no one calls it that, except for me.
Ms. Davis can be blessed by her religion all day long in her private space in her work place by having a Bible on her desk. But, when it comes to doing the business of the people she needs to do her job or find herself in jail yet again. After a few times of being jailed she can actually face prison and maybe that is what Huckabee is waiting for, it would bring in the donations wouldn't it?
The infamous Salem witch trials (click here) began during the spring of 1692, after a
group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be
possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As
a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special
court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch,
Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to
Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were
accused over the next several months. By September 1692, the hysteria
had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials. Though
the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against
accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness
lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch
trials would endure for centuries.
