The Supreme Court Says Do It!

The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of the court clerk religious discrimination case.

BREAKING: Supreme Court: Kentucky Clerk Must Issue Marriage Licenses
The court today turned down Kim Davis's appeal, meaning she must issue licenses to all eligible couples beginning Tuesday or face penalties.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
August 31 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Rowan County, Ky., Clerk Kim Davis’s request for a stay of a federal judge’s order for her to issue marriage licenses to all eligible couples, meaning she and her staff must comply beginning Tuesday or face fines and possible jail time, the Associated Press reports.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week turned down her request for a stay of his order, meaning that she would be required to start granting licenses today. Her lawyers, with the right-wing group Liberty Counsel, filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court Friday. Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees appeals from the Sixth Circuit, referred the appeal to the full court, which turned it down without comment, according to the AP.

I remember another case where religion was used to justify discrimination; Governor Wallace stood in front of the school door and used the a Bible to justify segregation.

George Wallace Stood in a Doorway at the University of Alabama 50 Years Ago Today
The Alabama governor famously protested the integration of the state university by two black students.
US News
By Debra Bell
June 11, 2013

In January of 1963, following his election as Governor of Alabama, George Wallace famously stated in his inaugural address: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

The staunch conservative demonstrated his loyalty to the cause on June 11, 1963, when black students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood showed up at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa to attend class. In what historians often refer to as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," the governor literally stood in the doorway as federal authorities tried to allow the students to enter.

It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

The latest news is that she is ignoring the court order's and refusing to issue any marriage licenses. According to the Washington Post this morning,

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The office of Kim Davis, the elected clerk of Kentucky’s Rowan County, rejected requests for marriage licences from the first two same-sex couples to enter the courthouse Tuesday — just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against a request from Davis to be excused from issuing such licenses.

Davis did not make an appearance at the counter as the courthouse opened, leaving employees to deny couples on her behalf. A woman at counter said Davis was “doing reports.”

When Davis emerged, she declared that she was not issuing any licences.

“Under whose authority?” she was asked.

“Under God’s authority,” she said.