Discussion for article #236904
This article is rather misleading. Her arrest and sentencing had nothing to do with the gay marriage and everything to do with trespassing and refusing to leave when told to. The couple she offered to marry didn’t ask her to come. The judge had already given them their license. But she wanted to make a scene and demanded to do the marriage on the spot. They don’t do any sort of marriages in that office, gay or not. So her refusal to leave was trespassing. So please, TPM, don’t try to make this case about gay marriage. That is purely incidental.
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Hey, the sun’s come up again, where’s the next GOP presidential candidate?
You wouldn’t’a clicked on the article had it said, “Somebody got probation for disorderly conduct.”
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Here’s picture of the Judge, kinda looks like he’d fit in a Deliverance movie,
Or a daily cheap gin guzzler!
The Autauga County Probate Office DOES perform civil marriage ceremonies as a matter of fact, my sister-in-law was married by Judge Cordy Taylor (previously Autauga County Probate Judge). I don’t have first hand information on the other accounts as you may, but your statement about the probate office not officiating any sort of marriages is patently false.
I think this is a bit much – merely offering to perform same sex marriage isn’t going to get you probation probably – the reader should reasonably figure out it was for something like disorderly conduct as some act of protest. Which was about same sex marriage from the looks of it.
And, going beyond your specific comment, since the government can’t just let misuse of a judge’s office go like this, some sort of probation doesn’t really sound that unreasonable.
The probate judge’s office had stopped allowing ceremonies in the office, a move that was unrelated to a court’s recent decision to strike down the state’s ban on gay marriage, according to the county’s probate judge, Al Booth.
Even if he really did stop all ceremonies in the office because of gay marriage, it doesn’t matter, because he stopped all of them. The point is, that was the rule before this went down.
So not patently false. Your information is just outdated.
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Maybe Huckabee and the rest of the Clown Car 2016 can say this shows Christians are being persecuted over gay marriage…
i am offering to perform a lobotomy for TPM and HP headline writers. i have no surgical skills.
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True. But the solution for TPM should be to not write the article.
She’s lucky she wasn’t stoned to death.
He’s an awesome god.
This looks like government overreach. It looks like the law enforcement and judicial system are completely broken.
Regardless of whether she was trespassing or conducting weddings, six months is excessive.
How About “Minister sentenced after protesting institutionalized homophobia and discrimination”
Would that work for you?
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No, because she wasn’t doing that.
She probably should have made her offer of officiating outside. But sheese, she got busted for DOING a customary part of her job?
Stark contrast with all the RW bible thumper pharmacists who refuse to dispense legal prescriptions on religious grounds getting protecting for NOT doing their jobs.
RW Fundy colleges seem to have turned out law student & pharmacists as tactic to stop legal birth control. The Fundy In Charge of pushing RW agenda in Autauga County seems to be trying to stop legal marriage.
Time to stamp out the RW Fundy Xian agenda. Some of them come right out and admit people should violate laws in favor of 'GAWD’S words" (But they never cite evidence that God said what they are saying he/she/it said. A heavily edited bunch of books are not admissible evidence) Get outta politics or churches pay taxes.
What was she doing that other civil rights activists didn’t do? Or were they just “trespassing” and getting what they deserved?
DAMN!! If only they had Sharia law in Alabama, she would have been stoned to death by now.
Please, this is just what we used to call “civil disobedience” in the 60’s, people doing stuff where other white religious right people didn’t want them to be doing stuff. We got over it, except that a few hundred black people lost their lives in struggles like these.
TPM readers who think this woman should have been charged and fined: here’s a hint, you’re totally not putting stuff in context. And to those (like me), who think this woman should NOT have been charged and fined: we’re not putting this stuff in context, either.
Why? Because people do slightly not legal stuff, (not injuring others nor damaging property, like this woman did), to get noticed, to get stuff talked about, to get the issue before the people, who will think, make decisions, change things for the better. It happened in Selma, it happened in Birmingham, it happened at Stonewal Bar in NYC. Change is a process, and involves us all thinking about it, working on it.