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You really couldn't make this stuff up…#traditionalmarriage
Kentucky Clerk Fighting Gay Marriage Has Wed Four Times
Meh, Kentucky …
Does it mentoon how many of her marriages were to cousins?
Romans 13
1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
2 Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.
4 For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.
6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing.
7 Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
I used to be a church-going Christian, then one day I decided to read the Bible from cover to cover. It took me 3 years to get through it and by the end, I had completely lost my religious beliefs. As your excerpt from Romans demonstrates, it is a ridiculous collection of nonsense, and people who believe it is the word of God must never have read it.
I did like the book of Ezra, which I believe doesn't mention God. It's basically about an open records request; since I'm a government lawyer, it resonated with me.
Well, my favorite part of the Bible is the Song of Songs.
"Thy breasts are like twin roe, which feed among the lilies. Thou art fair, my love, thou art fair."
Amen.
Kind of an odd image though.
I find the image absolutely lovely.
From the NYT… (sorry, these are just too good to pass up) #youcantfixstupid
1) Love Whitt's use of "the gays"
2) I bet Ms. Davis is related to half of Kentucky by marriage between her multiple marriages and the collective marriages of all of her husbands. Her kids probably should move out of state to find at least distant cousins to marry.
Related by marriage? Which one?
…and it's completely lost on poor Florene that she lives in Morehead, KY? Can't you just picture her in the local beauty shop, ala Steel Magnolias, yacking about the ghey, the War on Coal and ObummerCare?
Bless her little heart.
Florene Whitt? OMG, that sounds like the name a drag queen would use on stage.
Probably has a sister Ethyl and a brother Benzene
That blazin' hussy Ethyl…
Leviticus
Eating fat (3:17)
Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
Eating an animal which doesn't both chew cud and has a divided hoof (rabbit, pig, possum) (11:4-7)
Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
Lying (19:11)
Mistreating foreigners – "the foreigner residing among you must be treated as a native born" (19:33-34)
Selling land permanently (I'm guessing as county clerk she records warranty deeds and perpetual conservation easements) (25:23)
So two things.
Isn't it time to admit that nobody obeys every rule in the bible, not even the strictest orthodox Jews or fundamentalist Christians? It's completely cafeteria style so there's no justifiable reason why one person's or group's selections should be forced on any other person or group.
Let's stop confusing religious freedom with forced accommodation contrary to constitutional law. If your religion doesn't allow you to perform the duties of a particular job than you need to find another job. A tax payer funded government position as a clerk isn't going to work for you if you can't perform it according to the law because of your religious beliefs. Find something else.
And for Ms Davis… marriages don't always work out but if you're so religious and Christian and all you're supposed to enter marriage at least intending it's going to be non-adulterous and until death do you part. At the very least you’re supposed to try a lot harder than you apparently do to keep it that way.
We can't eat fat? That's a good one.The Eastern European Jewish cooking at Bubby's house was pretty much entirely schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) based. Jewish lard. Jewish chopped liver is unthinkable without it . U-n-t-h-i-n-k-a-b-l-e I say! Just Frenchified pate. Sure, modern Jewish cook book authors keep trying to convert these foods to health conscious versions but the hardcore faithful will resist to the end of time! Not to be confused with End Times. Not our thing. Schmaltz forever! They're going to have to pry my schmaltzy chopped liver out of my cold dead hands. No matter what the cardiologists and Leviticus say!
That really is the best part of this saga so far, Michael. She's been summoned to court tomorrow to explain why she shouldn't be held in contempt of court for her refusal to issue the licences. She's been turned away at every level, including SCOTUS, which en bank and without comment, denied her request for a stay.
Do you suppose her lawyer is her second-cousin who's married to her half-brother (the son of her thrice-divorced Aunt Weezy (who is the daughter of third-cousin Jimmy and that hussy Betty Sue who used to work behind the cash register at the PigglyWiggly?))
It is indeed a slippery slope…
Oops…sorry, BC. I just remembered these gif's were problematic ala Moddy's multiple horse beating posts. Apologies.
This one isn't quite as choppy. Not giving me a headache. But thanks for the thought.
OK, Senator Courageous, . . .
. . . come out, come out, come out, wherever you are !! . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/world/obama-clinches-vote-to-secure-iran-nuclear-deal.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
It's an age-old Senate tradition, Dio. And the vast majority of voters do not care.
OK. Who's the bigger idiot? The congressman who thought an appropriate way to talk to second graders about the role of the veto was to use a bill concerning current nuclear negotiations with Iran and to make sure the kids knew that children "your age" ( once again, second grade) are being used as suicide bombers or the principal who wrote the inexplicably perky, breezy and not terribly literate letter to parents attempting to explain away what their "kiddos" had been subjected to in school after receiving parental complaints? There is no wrong answer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matt-salmon-arizona_55e5d834e4b0b7a9633a58b7?utm_hp_ref=politics
From the "This is not a surprise" Department — Poll shows that if Obama favors it, Republicans are agin' it! But if Trump sezs "Yes!" then Repubs like it too
(this includes universal healthcare and the keeping Iran deal)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-republicans-democrats-poll_55e5fbb8e4b0c818f6196a82?utm_hp_ref=politics
So basically, the best way to defeat the NRA and RMGO and get guns off the street would be for Obama to come out in favor of giving every man, woman and child a gun.