The Pope Just Handed Kim Davis A Huge Win

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148. There are clerk positions that cannot be sidestepped.

Some counties don't have enough people. You could have a single point of failure. So the principle behind this is even bigger than Kim Davis' refusal, for the fact that her name is on the certificate as the head of that office.

In this case the issue is informed by her refusal to defer to an underling, but who resolves it when there IS no underling to allow to handle it if the party in question abstains? What if the entire office was unwilling to delegate on her behalf?

There is an underlying principle, and that must be addressed. At work, Kim Davis is not Kim Davis. At work Kim Davis is the State of Kentucky and the State of Kentucky doesn't get a religious conscientious objection to performing any aspect of the State of Kentucky's business.

Pope's wrong. Erich is wrong. What they said could possibly be true of positions wherein people work for the state but are not a intercessor representative OF the state. People not acting on the state's behalf. Charged with upholding the law.


This brilliant bit of bullshit is as old as the entire country. There was a time Catholics were not allowed by law to hold public office or act as an officer of the state in any capacity, not even as a lawyer. Took 30 years after the ratification of the Constitution to unwind that shit across all the initial states. Let's not roll the clock back folks, those were dark times. The Government is a sandbox, in which everyone gets to play. If you personal moral code says 'I can't play with others' then get the fuck out of the sandbox. You can't force everyone else out of the sandbox and claim it for yours alone as a viable solution.

No one gets to discriminate with the power of the state. The state is, like justice supposed to be blind to the particulars of the petitioners. If it is legal, if the facts are true, the outcome should always be the same. We cannot survive in a system where two legally eligible couples go to the county clerk for a certificate, and one couple comes away with a certificate, and the other is denied due to their apparent gender. It is not a permissible condition. It cannot be allowed. It will destroy us to maintain that sort of balance.