Kim Davis and her attorneys take another swipe at their Democratic governor.
Yes, Kim Davis is still battling a court case, now at the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. You’ll remember she’s suing the Governor of Kentucky because – get this – she feels her First Amendment rights were violated when he told all the county clerks in Kentucky they should do their jobs, issue marriage licenses to all couples regardless of gender, and if they felt they could not, they should resign.
On Monday, Davis’ attorneys from the Liberty Counsel (remember, the folks who claimed 100,000 people in Chile rallied in a football stadium to pray for her, and promised us those photos of her with the pope would be presented very soon…) filed their opening brief.
In it, they, in Davis’ name, took the opportunity to call Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky, “impotent.”
“Things are not always what they seem on first view. This case is not about whom a person may marry under Kentucky law,” the brief begins.
“Neither is this case about an impotent Kentucky Governor who has no control over Kentucky marriage law, sets no Kentucky marriage policy, and possesses no authority to provide a simple religious accommodation to a single county clerk.”
The Liberty Counsel brief, after attacking Gov. Beshear, goes on to claim that “Davis, like many other reasonable and sincere persons, holds in good faith an undisputed religious conviction that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, only.”
“Thus, in her belief, SSM [same-sex marriage] is not, in fact, marriage. She therefore cannot issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple that bears her name, other personal identifiers, and authorization, as the SSM Mandate required. This act of validation of the proposed union violates her religious freedom protected by the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the United States and Kentucky Constitutions,” it claims.
Finally, the brief claims the federal judge in her case “erred” by “discarding fundamental principles of federalism and comity by commandeering a state office run by a publicly elected official.”
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