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Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
That is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued.
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Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal despite the US supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. She based her refusal on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
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Good. Your religion does not control how a government functions. You want to live in a theocracy? Go live in Vatican City or one of the more authoritarian Islamic countries. If you live in the US the policy is what the government, not your God, make it.
Unfortunately if this goes to supreme court, she’ll get away Scott free. USA is becoming a theocracy, celebrating Christian doctrine as if it was Sharia law in a muslim country.
Becoming? Always has been.
This is just an Extinction Burst.
I sure hope so.
I hope so too, and their inability to try anything new is what gives me hope that it is indeed an extinction burst.
Because extinction bursts are generally characterized by a “this is what worked before, we just have to do what worked before harder!” attitude, which generally seems to be the attitude the Christofascists have.
They’re not selling any new ideas or changing tactics from what they have used in the past, it definitely seems like “just more of the same, but harder” because they don’t actually have any ideas. Which tracks as an extinction burst, imho.
Which like, who expects a death cult to have any actual ideas?
just more of the same, but harder
I agree, but I’m disappointed that so many follow that line, instead of most of them thinking this has gone too far. Where is the point where people begin to turn back to normalcy again? I sure hope the extinction burst doesn’t include a full fledged fascist christian dictatorship, that may take decades to turn back from.
Sadly, the extinction burst is us getting crazy before we kill ourselves and the EARTH (minus humans) returns to a more stable environment.
Hey bucko, here in JesusLand, ya’ll best stay on the right side of God and his Holy Ya’ll Qaeda militias, otherwise the Gays might cause another Hurricane!
Yes I understand there’s that issue with gays in USA. I’m lucky to live in Denmark, one of the least religious countries in the world, and for some weird reason, also one of the most blessed by God. For some reason God likes our Gay way better than the American. Go figure? 🤪
Or maybe we are just less cursed, because God gave up on us? 😱
I don’t see the court upholding wilful defiance of their own rulings.
But why? All she did was deny a sanctioned government service to an entire class of people. /s
Unfortunately I’m sure she’ll turn this into another fundraiser paid for by her fellow Christian fundamentalists.
Unfortunately I’m sure she’ll turn this into another fundraiser paid for by her fellow Christian fundamentalists.
She already turned it into a lucrative career on the fascist misinformation circuit days after she first made national news, raking in probably millions of dollars since then.
And yeah, I’m sure you’re right that this will serve as an additional income booster for her 😮💨
Never thought I’d hear that asshole’s name again. But I’m glad this is the way I heard it. Bigots getting what they deserve always puts a smile on my face.
I wondered how many times she has proclaimed “Go woke. Go broke.”
I hope her check clears.
I am curious if she’s been married, again, and divorced, again, since 2015.
Apparently not, still on the fourth one to the second husband.
Honestly this is the kicker for me
Shortly after the same-sex marriage license controversy, Davis said she and her husband switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
At least they recognized their true nature.
Everyone likes to point out that she was divorced a lot, but can you blame her? She probably had dudes beating down her door to go out with her.
What guy doesn’t want to hook up with an angry clerk with a pompadour and baggy overalls. She’s got that “you’re in the wrong line” DMV hotness that everyone fantasizes about.
9 years, this all moved kind of slowly didn’t it?
I actually was doing the math on this kind of thing lately, but it was RE: Alex Jones/Sandy Hook.
So, the average US lifespan is about 77.
So a court case taking 10 years is about 1/10th of your entire life.
Now, consider that the beginning of your life (say up to 13 or so) you’re not really in any mental position to be able to bring a court case. At the end of your life (similarly probably the last 15 years or so), you’re in a similar position, where your body and mind may be failing and you may not be in a position to bring a court case.
So if we cut off the “unusable in court” years of our lives, we’re left with about 50 years of good quality “living” as an adult.
That means a court case taking 10 years is actually closer to 1/5th of your entire life.
How is a life where a large portion of it was fighting in court just to get a bare minimum of what is passing for justice a quality life?
Do people not understand the passage of time and these are literally lives being wasted fighting for justice from fucking idiots?
I understand the whole “court moves slow” but god damn there’s got to be a better fucking system than making people wait out giant chunks of their lives for a pathetic half-ass result that isn’t anywhere close to “justice.”
It’s a fucking travesty that anyone defends it. It’s a broken ass system, stop acting like we can fix something that places such little value of the time spent on such things in a persons life.
Seriously if I had spent that many years trying to claw back justice from a fuckwit like this or Alex Jones, I would not look back and think I had had a chance to have a “life well lived.” No, the “justice” system took that from me by taking its sweet fucking time.
I’m not sure I follow your point. Do you think people actually do nothing but sit in court for hours every day while a case goes through multiple appeals?
Well for starters these people have had a huge bill hanging over their heads. Also the court case can determine how they must live their lives. Apart from that it puts a huge stress on people waiting in uncertainty of what will be decided, without really being able to do much about it.
So although it may not take life quality away equally for all, there is absolutely a risk that it does to a very high degree. And as always with such things, it generally hits the little guy way harder than rich people.
It’s almost like the conservative court strategy is to appeal, delay, and hope you die before you face any consequences.
It’s almost like the “justice” system was organized like that on purpose because a lot of the people who helped write the constitution didn’t want the aristocracy to go anywhere, or to have to face consequences, so they wrote a shitty constitution that still generally protected everyone in a position of power from ever having to answer to “a fucking plebeian.”
Gee, I wonder why the justice system is boiled down to “Whoever has the most money can just fucking wait out the other guy to win.”
Too much of our judicial system globally is based on Roman law. Our concept of private property is derived from their excuse for maintaining slavery.
I mean, the legal system usually does. There’s been a bit of a shit fight as to who should pay, the state or Kim. Might boggle your mind more to know that she still had the position up until 2019…
that’s a feature. it lets the powerful fuck over the powerless without consequence because the powerless can’t afford to take a decade of their lives off fighting in court.
Oh no! Not the consequences of my own actions!
They’ll never see it.
I bet they could repo her trailer and take all her shit and they still wouldn’t get more than $26,000.I feel like lawyers in a high profile case will make sure every single penny is squeezed out of her until she dies
At least I hope so.
She’ll raise more in donations from this than the fees and end up turning a profit.
I’m glad this is the ruling. …even if I know there will be a GoFund to pay this off, and she’ll probably be running for Congress in no time on the platform of “Elect me to legitimize our homophobia.”
Where is your Huckabee now, dipshit?
Step 2 find out
You shouldn’t judge people by their looks, but I have to admit I’d be a little scared to meet her in person.
What a shame.
SCotUS will rule that Christians are exempt from the law under the first amendment because being forced to obey the law is tantamount to being forced to agree with the law, which is compelled speech.
it warms my heart that, eight years later, she’s still feeling a very expensive sting from her absolute and unwavering cuntery.
Glad she’s finding out, but she can probs fundraise her way out of that in a few hours via the right-wing griftiverse. There’s no amount of money that hate-filled right wing grannies won’t give to assholes that they think will stick it to the libs.
