Tag Archives: Liberty Counsel

Buzzfeed reporter Davis Mack tweets: “#KimDavis to return to work Monday, lawyers say. Spent today reading fan mail.” In a follow-up tweet, he quotes Davis: “I am heartened that God’s people are not huddled up in a corner, but they are standing strong.” How many of those letters include a check? Below is the full photo. (Tipped by JMG reader …

Dominic Holden breaks the story at Buzzfeed: Brian Mason, a deputy for Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that he would issue marriage licenses even if Davis instructs him not to when she returns to the office. “I would issue licenses,” Mason told BuzzFeed News. Asked to confirm he would issue licenses even if Davis says …

Talk about empty promises – Mike Huckabee just offered to go to jail in place of Kim Davis, who sobbingly took the stage with her husband Joe Davis to warn the crowd that Jesus is totally being all Judge Judy on them. Mr. Davis prepared for this nationally televised event by sporting a straw hat and overalls from the Hee …

Triumphantly flanked by hate group leader Mat Staver and Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis stopped sobbing long enough to offer the press a smile, nodding “yes” when they asked if her jailing had been worth it. Unsurprisingly the haters are spinning Davis’ release as a victory even though nothing has changed at her office.

Kyle Mantyla has the text at Right Wing Watch: “A clerk provides licenses to do something,” Staver explained. “A license to operate a motor vehicle on the road, a license to build a particular facility or a license to do this or a license to do that or a license to operate a business. So that person is licensing someone …

CNN confirms that federal Judge David Bunning has ordered the release of Kim Davis now that same-sex marriage licenses are being issued. HOWEVER Davis is reportedly threatening to attempt to stop any further licenses from being issued. CNN reporter: “We might just have to go through this again.” Story developing….. UPDATE: From ABC News: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is …

[NOTE! Auto-playing video!] Hate group leaders Tony Perkins, Brian Brown, and Mat Staver will join Mike Huckabee for a Kim Davis hate rally due to start with a 2:30PM press conference. Ted Cruz will be there too, but he has reportedly refused to be on the same stage with Huckabee, so he is due to appear any minute. The local …

All of Teabagistan is aflame today with outraged claims that the HRC deviously bought FreeKimDavis.com and redirected the URL to their donation page.  Even the Liberty Counsel has joined the “How DARE they?” stampede. Slight problem – the HRC just confirmed to me that they did NOT buy the URL and they don’t know who did. As I noted the …

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a blistering denouncement of Kim Davis for TIME Magazine. An excerpt: Americans have a long history of using religion to rationalize atrocious behavior. Confederate President Jefferson Davis echoed many Civil War Southerners when he validated slavery by claiming that it “was established by decree of Almighty God…it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both …

Raw Story has the amusing story: A panel of legal experts on Fox News came to the conclusion on Monday that Kim Davis’ attorney, Mat Staver, was “ridiculously stupid” for asserting that the Supreme Court did not have constitutional authority to strike down same-sex marriage bans. On Monday’s edition of Happening Now, trial attorney Chip Merlin pointed out that anyone …

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel: Today, on behalf of Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, Liberty Counsel filed a request for an order providing relief pending appeal against Gov. Steven Beshear at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal. This is an emergency request for the Governor to accommodate Kim’s religious conviction, which would free her from jail. “Today …

The Liberty Counsel today filed notice that they are appealing the contempt ruling that has jailed Kim Davis since Thursday. Reuters reports: “The contempt order itself was unlawful,” Roger Gannam, a lawyer for Davis, told Reuters. Gannam is an attorney with Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian religious advocacy organization that said it would back her legal fight. The notice of …

The Lexington Courier-Journal reports: Hundreds of people gathered outside the Carter County Detention Center on Saturday and prayed for jailed Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was locked up just a few hundred feet away. “She won’t bow, I promise you,” her husband, Joe Davis, told the crowd while dressed in overalls and a camouflage ball cap. He said he …

According to hate group leader Mat Staver, Kim Davis has declared from her jail cell that the marriage licenses issued today in Rowan County are invalid without her signature. Yahoo News reports: A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to gay couples in Rowan County are void and “not worth the paper they are …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: “Washington Watch” host Craig James, the Family Research Council official who mentioned his own lawsuit against Fox Sports for terminating his job as a football analyst over comments he made mocking gay rights, said that America is now on a “slippery slope” of anti-Christian persecution and legal organizations like Liberty Counsel need to …

Maggie Gallagher whined too soon as this morning Donald Trump addressed the jailing of Kim Davis on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. But she still will be VERY unhappy. Trump: “Well, look, the decision came down from the Supreme Court, Gene, so I’m a believer on both sides of the picture. I would say the simple answer is let her clerks do …

The Associated Press reports: Speaking to reporters before the licenses were issued Friday, Davis’ husband, Joe Davis, said his wife was in good spirits after her first night in jail. Holding a sign that says “Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah,” Joe Davis said his wife would not resign from her position and would stay in jail for as long as …

“I stand with Kim Davis! I will not comply! Free Republic is and always will remain a pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. The recent SCOTUS ruling against marriage is a travesty against God, country and constitution. It is a shot against Christianity. The government has now officially declared war on Christianity and against individual Christians. Kim Davis is the …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: While Kentucky clerk Kim Davis continues to sit in jail after refusing to give out marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Mike Huckabee plans to stand up for her. The former Arkansas governor announced Thursday that he will be heading up a “liberty rally” next Tuesday for the jailed county clerk in Kentucky. According to …