Electing certain officials sounds like a great idea on paper - grass roots democracy and all that but leads to shitty results in practice. The problems in the US justice system stem in part from electing DAs or senior LEOs (see Arpaio and Plea deals). When you need to staff positions where impartiality is important elections set the wrong incentives.
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Itās even stricter than that. After Exodus [the second book of the Old Testament] 20:13 gives the commandment āThou shalt not killā, Leviticus [the third book of the Old Testament] 20:9 sets out the punishment for swearing at your parents:
āFor every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.ā
How many people reading would have survived their years as a teenager if that law had been strictly followed?
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Welcome back!
Yes indeed, there are problems with the US justice system. Pluck that string again.
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She took her oath of office to protect the constitution before her god.
Sheās going to hell.
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I hope she gets to live in a country where what she wants to do is perfectly legal. Just not this one, please.
[/quote]I certainly hope she doesnāt. Because that would mean that thereās a horrible country out there that supports this shit in law.
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Iāve heard this a few times now, that Davis is refusing to perform marriages to eventually secure film/book rights (in addition to doing it for her Lourde and Savoir Faire), which serves only to reinforce my thought that religiously-based movies and books are boring as fuck.
Act One, Scene One
[Scene: A quiet office in a small county courthouse. Two people type quietly on their keyboards while a third person prays over a bedazzler. The clerk of the court, a small brunette woman dressed in a t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan āI [heart] Church Boys (2 Cor. 6:14)ā, is watching two local women approach her desk.]
Clerk: May I, with the help of our almighty Blord and Fathergawd, help you?
Women: Weāre ladies who are queer and love the devil and weād like to get a marriage license before we subvert the will and spirit of Jeeeeebus Christmas.
Clerk: By the broken keystone of Ezekiel! Are you gay?
Women: Dude, we said that right before lighting this spliff and pushing over your crappy Holiday tree.
Clerk: YAAAAWWWWEEEEEHHHHHtaminute. Sorry, canāt do it. Da-yum you to the crispy blackened Cajun Bowels of HAY-ULLLL!!!
[Camera fades to black.]
FIN
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I believe itās already been asked, but does her being in jail prevent anyone else from seeking marriage licences in that county? In other words, is she the sole official capable of performing this action?
Apparently 5 of her deputies will issue licenses.
The one who wonāt? Her son.
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Wonderfully cogent argument from the Detroit Free Press:
"Religious liberty does not entitle the bearer to line-item vetoes for essential job functions."
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sore loser
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Jesus doesnāt actually say you will go to Hell for swearing an oath, but he is pretty clear that it is forbidden. Which is why it is so strange that supposedly Christian countries make this part of the legal system.
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Hellās more of an Old Testament thing anyway.
That would never have occurred to me.
(and your post may possibly be a whoosh, Iām not sure.)
The lord enjoys watching FmF threesomes.
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āIām headed to Kentucky on Tuesday to stand with Kim Davis. We must end the criminalization of Christianity.ā
- Mike Huckabee, Republican candidate for president and former governor of Arkansas
First they came for the racists, and I spoke outā
Because I only needed the old white vote.
Then they came for the misogynists, and I spoke outā
Because I only needed the old white male vote.
Then they came for the homophobes, and I spoke outā
Because I only needed the old white male Christian-right vote.
Then they came for meāand there was no one who bought my miracle-cure books claiming cinnamon rolls as a cure for diabetes left alive to speak for me.
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Obviously you havenāt heard the ultimate hat trick: Guess who her son is?
The Assistant County Clerk (the person who takes over when she canāt do her job).
Iād be happy if the judge started holding summary contempt of court proceedings with the entire department. If you donāt want to perform the job fine, thereās the nice bailiffs to take you to jail. Nobody left in the department? Thatās ok, the Federal governmentās court clerks can fill in for your counties lack of intelligence.
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The best (or at least most obvious) example of this is the Mormon elders, starting with Joseph Smith, getting a new ārevelationā every time they wanted to do something not previously authorized (e.g., marrying multiple, underaged wives).
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Not to mention her nude scene with Jack Nicholson in āAbout Schmidt.ā
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