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mercuryblues

(14,562 posts)
50. No Kim
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 04:17 PM
Sep 2015

Last edited Mon Sep 14, 2015, 04:51 PM - Edit history (1)

it is not your office, it is the people's office. Which is why you went to jail, you can not deny people equal rights under the law because of your religious beliefs. The county clerk's office is not your personal fiefdom.

She evidently did not enjoy her time in jail Gothmog Sep 2015 #1
Good. If Kim Davis can ignore court orders with impunity, then deadbeat dads closeupready Sep 2015 #2
That's all we need. xmas74 Sep 2015 #38
Happy to be rec #1. nt riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #3
Yes, an $80,000 salary makes one flexible! oldandhappy Sep 2015 #4
Quite - I have a vision of her son giving her a good talking to TubbersUK Sep 2015 #7
Geez..as low as my "Standards" are, for 80,000 bucks I'd issue marriage licenses to cockroaches. BlueJazz Sep 2015 #11
She should give it all to charity, God would like that emulatorloo Sep 2015 #51
I am sure her version of charity is not your version of charity (mine neither) hollysmom Sep 2015 #54
She added: "I'm no hero." Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2015 #5
She gets to pick her own labels. trotsky Sep 2015 #8
More importantly, not only is she no Democrat Jack Rabbit Sep 2015 #23
Does anyone homegirl Sep 2015 #31
No, I don't think they would, or should Jack Rabbit Sep 2015 #42
Yes. This is KY. whatthehey Sep 2015 #49
She would probably be more comfortable yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #53
So, to sum up TlalocW Sep 2015 #6
TlalocW kpete Sep 2015 #24
soon enough Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee will be names in trivia quizes rurallib Sep 2015 #39
"My conscience or my freedom" stage left Sep 2015 #9
Yep. Wallking away from the cushy job she got through nepotism Demobrat Sep 2015 #27
It's not over until that county elects someone else. n/t Gormy Cuss Sep 2015 #10
Issueing them is nothing - filing them on the records is what makes them legal. Will she do that?? patricia92243 Sep 2015 #12
Call me a skeptic but I have a feeling there will be at least one more act in this farce. Ford_Prefect Sep 2015 #13
Are civil suits still in progress? randome Sep 2015 #14
I would think her statements open her up to further liability Trekologer Sep 2015 #37
Welcome back to work Kim Davis: now just do your job struggle4progress Sep 2015 #15
"Choking back tears...she added, 'I'm no hero.'" catbyte Sep 2015 #16
Why does she believe a publicly funded government office Tsiyu Sep 2015 #17
She is 1,000% correct Tree-Hugger Sep 2015 #18
kimmy, take your "deeply held religious beliefs" OUT of the secular world, where SECULAR people niyad Sep 2015 #19
awww, isn't that nice? the wanna-be, hypocritical martyr is going to "allow" tax-payer-funded niyad Sep 2015 #20
Kim Davis finally right about one thing.... daleanime Sep 2015 #21
Okay, she still gets her salary and her "job" as preacher. asjr Sep 2015 #22
she got one thing right barbtries Sep 2015 #25
Guess the gig at Fox didn't come left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 #26
i can't imagine why fox didn't offer her a contract... Takket Sep 2015 #36
Yeah underpants Sep 2015 #44
New series at Faux: Land of the Blond Bimbos Raster Sep 2015 #48
What the hell, personal delusions forced to take second place to the law? Who knew? L. Coyote Sep 2015 #28
She has a choice Keep-Left Sep 2015 #29
Because retaliation against her employees would have brought a world of pain RandySF Sep 2015 #30
Two things that Kim Davis said that I will actually agree with her statement LynneSin Sep 2015 #32
I guess eating........................ turbinetree Sep 2015 #33
This isn't good enough for me. Takket Sep 2015 #34
That occurred to me, also. As county clerk, she is STILL discriminating. closeupready Sep 2015 #40
I'm positive that the legality of those licenses will be challenged in court csziggy Sep 2015 #55
Aww poor little baby has to follow the laws like everyone else! Rex Sep 2015 #35
Good. volstork Sep 2015 #41
She "allows" them? Irrelevant and immaterial IDemo Sep 2015 #43
This legal falsehood has been promulgated by Davis' Lead Attorney, Mat Staver, Liberty Council... Raster Sep 2015 #47
OVER?!? Was it OVER when the gays bombed the Alamo???? underpants Sep 2015 #45
She got one thing right: She is NO hero! Raster Sep 2015 #46
No Kim mercuryblues Sep 2015 #50
Fuck her. She, like everyone else in government, has no right to impose her religion on others. Solly Mack Sep 2015 #52
Check out the tweets from one of the people working in the office. diabeticman Sep 2015 #56
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