Kentucky Clerk Denies Marriage Licenses | Update: Clerk Freed w/Warning!

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padib said:

pearljammer said:

I think that that could potentially cause harm. I've never been excluded from something based on something inherent before so I cannot really measure it. The non-progressivists are only arrested (or whatever the law implies for the given infraction) when harm is done. Not simply for being non-progressive.

I mean, if we were to go back many decades - should we say didn't black people have other options available to them? I mean they didn't have to use those washrooms or ride on those buses, they could have played other sports or made their own teams.

They sure could have. And the minority which would have continued to snub them would grow smaller and smaller until it didn't matter anymore. Much like in this case.

Really, it didn't matter what Kim Davis did. Bottom line, people wanted to punish her, and that's what they did.

The victim is her.

She made many choices that lead to her being jailed. She used every legal option she had to delay going to jail but it was her choice, she chose to keep a job that would require her to do anything against her convictions when she could have resigned. She chose to make employees under her follow her religious conviction when she could have just let them handle it.

Had she not been jailed it would have set a terrible legal standard, where laws can be trumped by any individuals interpretation of their religious beliefs.

We are a society of law where everyone is held accountable to the same law, and we expect those in positions to carry out the law to follow it and not just ignore it.