Oh it’s even worse. She would get eternal damnation if she signed that form.
Of course being born-again, she should know she could get born-again again and “shazamm!” all is forgiven. They always have an out.
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Good analysis, but my 77 year old Aunt won’t understand it that way. She has and will continue to buy Santorum’s snake oil.
it was a trick question with no followup. double reverse jake. difficulty level 2.0.
I’m not wondering…
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Wow, repigs are stupid.
Lil kkkimmie took her case to the USSC and she lost 9-0. Not even Dumb Tony or the Toadstool would back up her claims. “Unconstitutional” is a word thrown around by RWACs a lot. They must mean the “confederate” “constitution”. Which does mention Jeebus.
Freedumb!
There’s been a gigantic change all right. The bar for martyrdom has been lowered from declaring one’s faith to the barrel of a gun, to declaring Kim Davis’s entitlement to an $80,000 per year job, regardless of whether she does it or sits on her fanny.
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Not really. It was the Court itself that did that, in Marbury v. Madison, and it wasn’t challenged. More a common law concept than based on the written constitution (which the UK [and specifically in respect of the origin of the common law, England], whence came the common law), lacks.
Pretty deeply embedded now, but nowhere written in the constitution.
Marbury is worthy of close reading. It assumes the authority to decide constitutional issues by disclaiming the authority to do something else [i.e., assume jurisdiction of a particular case]. Very elegant, and ironic as all hell.
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Thanks, I really appreciate that info.
Totally OT:
Hiw does JEB! get away with saying his brother kept us safe and Obama has made us in greater danger.
AND NO ONE SAYS ONE WORD TO THAT!!! Oh, except the clapping audience, that is.
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They have convinced themselves that 9/11 was Clinton’s fault. Poor Dumbya was just another hapless victim of Clinton’s treachery.
To Santorum and the others the myth it more important that the facts. Be it Cassie Bernall, Al Gore said he invented the Internet, Bush kept us safe, Iraq had WMD, Acorn, Death Panels etc.
G-d only knows. (Although I’ll bet She’s smirking.) The phrase “you covered your ass” comes to mind. I wonder how the families of nearly 5,000 dead military personnel, not to mention about 3,000 9/11 victims, feel about that claim?
It’s not just that she wasn’t doing her job it was that she was using her government position to enforce action in accordance with her religious views upon people who do not agree with her views. “My religion says that gay marriage is wrong so you can’t get married.”
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Santorum is an idiot but calling the story “bogus” is obnoxious. Cassie Bernall was at least by all accounts a young woman of faith who was shot while praying. Have some respect for a victim of a horrible tragedy.
Davis insisting this has anything to do with her religion is nonsensical. The kind of marriage that a state confers on a couple is an utterly secular non-religious legal marriage. The legal function she is supposed to be effecting has no intersection with religion. It’s as non-religious as a parking ticket.
If her church was changing its standards to authorize a same-sex religious marriage, Davis would have ample opportunity to take a grievance to her church about that. But what she and her church do is their own business which has nothing to do with the state and the legal marriages it does or does not recognize.
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Boy do I wish Mr. Tapper would have followed up that story by asking Mr. Santorum what the girl’s name was. If you are going to use someone’s personal story to make a political point, you should at least know their name. I have a feeling his response would have been…[crickets]…
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