I’m wondering what is hiding in that lawyer’s closet.
Just sayin’.
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Section 228 is on the next page… I almost missed it too.
It’s a pisser, for sure. Possibly he has a deeply held belief that men should urinate into coffee mugs? One thing’s certain…
The point, to me, was that oath ends with the words “so help me, God.” She took an oath before the Almighty …and now she and her lawyer think the ground rules can be conveniently altered. So, forgetting the law or the oath for the moment, how does she resolve lying to her God?
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Ernst Röhm
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Every public official takes an oath to uphold the laws. In Kentucky, a county clerk (and Kim Davis serves as a Kentucky county clerk) swears before God to faithfully execute the duties of the office. Kim Davis has falsely sworn and defied God.
KENTUCKY COUNTY CLERK’S OATH OF OFFICE
“I, …, do swear that I will well and truly discharge the duties of the office of … County Circuit Court clerk, according to the best of my skill and judgment, making the due entries and records of all orders, judgments, decrees, opinions and proceedings of the court, and carefully filing and preserving in my office all books and papers which come to my possession by virtue of my office; and that I will not knowingly or willingly commit any malfeasance of office, and will faithfully execute the duties of my office without favor, affection or partiality, so help me God.”
Source: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Statutes/statute.aspx?id=21176
30A.020 Oath of clerk and deputies.
Every clerk and deputy, in addition to the oath prescribed by Section 228 of the Constitution, shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take the following oath in presence of the Circuit Court: “I, …, do swear that I will well and truly discharge the duties of the office of … County Circuit Court clerk, according to the best of my skill and judgment, making the due entries and records of all orders, judgments, decrees, opinions and proceedings of the court, and carefully filing and preserving in my office all books and papers which come to my possession by virtue of my office; and that I will not knowingly or willingly commit any malfeasance of office, and will faithfully execute the duties of my office without favor, affection or partiality, so help me God.” The fact that the oath has been administered shall be entered on the record of the Circuit Court.
Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Created 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 21, sec. 2, effective January 2, 1978.
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Here’s the Oath for County Clerks in Kentucky… http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Statutes/statute.aspx?id=21176
Sorry. Just discovered this is for court clerks.
I suspect that Democrat label is left over from when Democrats were right and Republicans were left, before that southern Democrat signed the Civil RIghts Law. Remember, this is a legacy position. Folks have voted fot that name for at least two generations. With these legacy seats, the voters vote for the name. It’s like at a certain time in Georgia’s history, the name Talmadge got elected automatically. Most of the time no one even bothers to run, so that the incumbent (family) runs unapposed.
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Wow, that is just bizarre…Has he offered any explanation as to WHY he pissed in a cup rather than the bathroom a few feet away?
These kind of anti-gay zealots almost invariably have some kind of sexual peccadillo themselves usually hiding in plain sight, or somewhere in their own tightly sealed closet. Wouldn’t surprise me if we later learn this lawyer has an app on his smartphone that uses sex-bots to charge his libido or has a blow-up doll stuffed in the garage.
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There was a RICO lawsuit filed against this Staver fella’, et al, in regard to a kidnapping. It stated, in part:
47. Lisa Miller’s attorneys Mathew Staver and Rena Lindevaldsen also routinely instructed their Law School students that the correct course of action for a person in Lisa Miller’s situation would be to engage in “civil disobedience” and defy court orders - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case#sthash.Y7W7CZ21.dpuf
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In my lifetime, the Jewish kids in my high school and jr high school would sing Christian Xmas carols along with the rest of us. I’m not sure what they did during a Christian type invocation.
That has since gone by the wayside.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Liberty University and it’s law grads. Remember the intellectually struggling lawyers in the Justice Department hired from Liberty during “W’s” Administration. These people have an aggenda and the law is nothing but an obstacle to be ignored as far as they are concerned. This clerk is a dimwit happily being used by this group. She has had four marriages, admitted to adulterly within more than one marriage and doesn’t understand her government position. She is the perfect mentally ill-equipped pawn for the anti-gay group.
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Using the courts to persecute gays: So, Mr.Lawyer, is this the hill you want to die on?
I know this site is now basically mood affiliation articles for liberals, that is why i’ll let my prime membership lapse, Its too bad, Josh used to be provocative, now its just pure left propaganda.
Mrs Davis should of course obey the law or quit.
But two things I see here. One is that you all are just using Mrs. Davis as a punching bag for the working class whites that you obviously hate. It shouldn’t be any surprise if that group votes about 90% Republican in 2016. The left media takes every chance it can to scream that the white working class is the outgroup that they hate. This goes double for white working class men. You make fun of Republicans for idiotically closing their tent, but Democrats are doing exactly the same thing in the same ways. All of the making fun of Mrs Davis for her looks, clothes marriages, and faith are exactly as offensive as the anchor babies language.
I completely agree that every official should uphold every law. But everybody on this site agrees that some groups are more equal than others. Undocumented immigrants, according to the site and you all, are above the law and city officials who break the law to allow them to stay in the country despite breaking the law are doing good work. Even when the unlawful actions of those officials results in murder you are still willing to sweep the results under the rug. So you believe your values are above the law, just not Mrs Davis’ values.
Its really a shame that this site doesn’t even try to grapple with this cognitive dissonance.
There she sits, answering to a HIGHER POWER. This is a PERFECT example of the safety net called ‘separation between church and state’, if one cannot live and perform their paid duties, especially in government elected jobs, they have no grounds to keep their job.
So as far I’m concern SHE can rot in JAIL. When she chose to have her children out of wedlock WAS she ever denied a paid service by anyone who believes children should only come into this world thru a marriage before God? Religion belongs in Church.
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I agree. Even with all that going for her she only won by 23 votes.
One of my Jewish friends would sing along, but changed the words. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” became “God Rest Ye Jerry Mendelbaum”
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Well, that’s because everything you wrote is in fact, untrue, and utter nonsense. I am a mostly white working-class citizen, first generation American, and none of my fellow workers would think of voting for the Republicans because of one drug-addled and mentally-ill Mexican who kept coming back to America after being deported, and then shot an innocent woman in San Francisco. I have also lived among the “illegals” that pick your salad greens, and they are hardly criminals. The ones involved in the drug-trade are, but they cater to you 1%ers, so think about that the next time your kids pick up some weed on a street corner.
I have been reading Josh Marshalls Talking Points memo before he even dreamed of making it into TPM and sent him a few bucks to help him out. In my opinion, TPM isn’t what it used to be, but maybe you missed Josh’s blog post about the sailboat? Explains a lot. (Sorry Josh, but yeah, it was obvious TPM isn’t your life anymore, which is fine…)
Parting shots from commenters with their undies in a bunch are nothing new, but one as dishonest and hateful as yours is rare. Good riddance.
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A reporter also asked Staver directly in a Friday press conference whether Liberty Counsel was profiting off Davis' case.
"Do you ask that question of the ACLU?” he retorted.
I’ll take that as a “yes”, then.
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