Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and said that Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, should follow the law.
Davis was scheduled to spend the Labor Day weekend in jail.
“Now, I respect the fact that this lady doesn’t agree, but she’s also a government employee. She’s not running a church,” Kasich said on the Sunday program. “I wouldn’t force this on a church, but in terms of her responsibility I think she has to comply. I don’t think — I don’t like the fact that she’s sitting in a jail, that’s just absurd as well. But I think she should follow the law.”
Not only the law itself, this lady took a personal oath to follow the law and at her swearing in she committed herself by saying she would follow the law to the letter (so help her God). So not only did she go against the law and the letter of that law she went against her oath before her God. And she’s done it publicly. In front of a judge.
A doomed paleorepublican who is struggling with just what the darn heck to say right now. But still, people are paying more attention to him around here than they do to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. It’s like the democratic party fell into a black hole and this is all that’s left.
Kasich is right, of course, but notice how he never bothers to include any of the high-profile supporters of Ms. Davis in his carefully worded judgment. “I’ll call her out,” Kasich basically says, “but don’t expect me to slam any of other Republican goofballs who advocate for Ms. Davis. That might cost me REAL VOTES!”
The Liberty Counsel and Kimmi’s husband are telling a flat-out lie when they state that the licenses issued without her signature are null and void.
Revised Kentucky Statute:
402.240 County judge/executive to issue license in absence of clerk.
In the absence of the county clerk, or during a vacancy in the office, the county judge/executive may issue the license and, in so doing, he shall perform the duties and incur all the responsibilities of the clerk. The county judge/executive shall return a memorandum thereof to the clerk, and the memorandum shall be recorded as if the license had been issued by the clerk.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2113.
Whoa a republican who knows the law.