Davis Attorney: State Should Just Take Her Name Off Marriage Licenses

Posted by | September 4, 2015 09:21 | Filed under: Politics Radio Interviews

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Mat Staver of the Liberty Council appeared on radio with me Thursday night saying all Kentucky has to do is take her name off marriage licenses and the problem will be solved. In the meantime, his client is in jail.

I asked Staver about his statement comparing his client to a Jew in Nazi Germany:

“Does that mean that if you’re Christian, don’t apply here; if you’re a Jew, you gotta get — what happened in Nazi Germany, what happened there first, they removed the Jews from government public employment, then they stopped patronizing them in their private businesses, then they continued to stigmatize them, then they were the ‘problems,’ then they killed them,” Staver said. “The fact of the matter is, she has a right to this employment and you don’t lose your constitutional liberties just because you are employed by the government.”

But Staver denied he was comparing Davis to Jews in Hitler’s Germany.

COLMES: Are you comparing your client to a Jew in Nazi Germany? That’s what it sounds like. STAVER: No, but what I’m saying is that here, if she were to just simply resign, this is what happened to the Jews. If you’re a Jew, you’ve got to get out of public employment.

COLMES: Do you really think it’s appropriate to compare this to Jews in Nazi Germany?

STAVER: No, I’m not comparing it to a Jew, but what I’m saying is because of somebody’s faith or somebody’s ethnicity, you can’t just simply say you have to leave employment. In this particular case, we’ve got the a Constitutional Amendment of the US Constitution, you’ve got the Kentucky Constitution, the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act that says we cherish religious freedom and the rights of conscience. Let’s try to see if there is a way to accommodate it rather than run them out of public employment or private employment.

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32 responses to Davis Attorney: State Should Just Take Her Name Off Marriage Licenses

  1. Budda September 4th, 2015 at 09:29

    This asshat is misrepresenting the issue.

    • whatthe46 September 4th, 2015 at 09:30

      big time.

    • Dwendt44 September 4th, 2015 at 11:34

      He’s already missing those paychecks.

  2. Obewon September 4th, 2015 at 09:36

    Errant Mat Staver of the Liberty Council lies like a Jerry Falwell love child, ignorant of conservative SCOTUS 2014 & 2015 equal marriage rulings upholding the 10th & 14th amendments.

  3. Larry Schmitt September 4th, 2015 at 09:40

    And then take her name off her paychecks, since she’s not doing her damn job.

    • granpa.usthai September 4th, 2015 at 11:33

      what about the previous paychecks she received while (by her own admission) knowing she would not perform her SWORN DUTIES any damn way?

      appears to be a bit of intent to commit FRAUD at PUBLIC EXPENSE to me.

      • Larry Schmitt September 4th, 2015 at 12:00

        Can’t have everything, I guess.

      • leDaver September 5th, 2015 at 01:35

        Definitely some kind of legal action should be taken against her. The lawyers will love it and the press will have no end of things to write. Is there re-call legislation in KY? A petition should be started now, so that it’s ready when the legal wheels start turning.

  4. rat618 September 4th, 2015 at 10:03

    Too late lawyer guy…you probably told her that she wouldn’t be jailed and at worst she would be fined but her believers would pick up the tab. Now you come up with this half baked idea…well one way to take her name off the documents is for her to resign. Got that genius? No charge for the consultation.

  5. Larry Schmitt September 4th, 2015 at 10:03

    Shoulda guessed from the name. The Liberty Council has a close relationship with Liberty “University.” How hard does the judge have to work to keep from laughing when Staver shows up in court?

  6. Tommie September 4th, 2015 at 10:17

    I say, let her a$$ rot until she decides to follow the law!

    • granpa.usthai September 4th, 2015 at 11:29

      usually what happens in contempt cases – prevents mayhem in the court system in general (people will be less likely to openly defy a legal court ruling) and there’s really no reason for a bond hearing as they’re not being charged with an actual criminal act.

    • fahvel September 4th, 2015 at 13:10

      absolutely T. She earned every second she spends in the cell.

    • Bunya September 4th, 2015 at 13:59

      Why waste taxpayer money keeping her in jail. I say fire her ass. If she refuses to do her job, they should just terminate her employment and get a job at McDonalds. Let’s see if they’ll put up with her bullsh*t.

      • MarkSebree September 4th, 2015 at 17:21

        They can’t fire her. She is an elected official. She cannot be impeached either until the Legislature is in session, which will not be until January 2016.

        • Bunya September 8th, 2015 at 09:39

          Seriously? The taxpayers have to pay to put up with this crap? What a country!

          • MarkSebree September 10th, 2015 at 01:48

            Worse. They generally have to pay for her legal defense since she is being sued in her official capacity. And since Gov. Bashear rightfully will not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on a special legislative session that means that she will continue to get a paycheck. Additionally, a significant number of Republican legislators are behind her, which means that impeachment is unlikely. Which means that she will continue to draw a paycheck until the next election.

      • Tommie September 4th, 2015 at 22:47

        Believe me i wish that could happen, i agree with you we do not need people like that who refuse to follow the law since she thinks she’s Judge Dredd “I am the law” in Sylvester Stallone voice!

  7. Suzanne McFly September 4th, 2015 at 10:38

    It is easy, resign. If you can’t do your job, you should take it upon yourself to leave, that is the respectable thing to do. This “Christian” family will need to find another job, but it won’t pay nearly as well. Greed is one of the 7 deadly sins, you would think they know that.

  8. granpa.usthai September 4th, 2015 at 11:26

    take her name off the marriage licenses –
    AND
    duly charge her with:

    EXTORTION (preventing her staff from doing their SWORN DUTIES due to her ‘personal religious belief’ at TAXPAYER EXPENSE)

    MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE (for refusing to do her SWORN DUTIES and PREVENTING her staff from doing their SWORN DUTIES due to her ‘personal religious belief’ at TAXPAYER EXPENSE)

    FRAUD (for her continued acceptance of her taxpayer funded ‘paycheck’ while knowingly and willfully refusing to carry out her SWORN DUTIES due to her ‘personal religious belief’)

    …maybe throw in PUBLIC NUISANCE (just as a filler)

    • leDaver September 5th, 2015 at 01:30

      These will serve to inflame her supporters even further, but you’re right. The Book should be thrown at her.

  9. Dwendt44 September 4th, 2015 at 11:36

    Just taking her name off the license form would still allow her to keep getting that sweet $80,000 a year paychecks.

  10. Jack E Raynbeau September 4th, 2015 at 12:02

    Simple solution. Do your job, Ms Davis.

  11. William September 4th, 2015 at 13:42

    Just sayin’

  12. Bunya September 4th, 2015 at 14:15

    I wonder if anybody can explain this to me. Why, in this day and age, are we actually entertaining anything anybody says about what their imaginary god likes and dislikes?
    If this woman thinks gay marriage is against her beliefs, she should quit her job and find something that more closely resembles what Zeus approves of. How dare she impose her crap on all of us!

    • leDaver September 5th, 2015 at 01:28

      This lady has been divorced 4 times. Divorce is specifically proscribed in the Bible. Deuteronomy and Leviticus give instances where it is OK to kill people. Leviticus proscribes the eating of shellfish and wearing clothes made from more than one material. I am willing to bet that Mrs. Davis doesn’t adhere to these (and many other) passages.

      • Bunya September 8th, 2015 at 09:49

        That’s because they cherry-pick which parts of the bible they wish to adhere to. In her case, she’s decided that God was just joking about divorce, eating shellfish and wearing mixed fibers – but NOT gay marriage!

  13. maggie September 4th, 2015 at 14:16

    yeah…FIRE HER and take her name off marriage licenses …

    • Alencon September 4th, 2015 at 17:12

      She can’t be fired. She’s an elected official and would need to be impeached by the Kentucky legislature but it’s not even in session right now. Besides, what do you figure the odds are of the Kentucky legislature impeaching her?

      • maggie September 4th, 2015 at 22:39

        impeached, fired, she’s in jail unable to perform her duties without a lawful reason….fine let her spend her entire term in jail…IDC (i don’t care)

  14. Halou September 4th, 2015 at 16:02

    He wasn’t comparing Kim Davis’ situation to that of Jews living in Nazi Germany, he was just saying her position is more or less the same as that of Jews in Nazi Germany.
    There’s a difference…. Maybe?

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