(Now that we know that the judge who said Kim Davies beliefs were not a reason for her to withhold marriage licenses, and that he has given this reasoning before, in 2 cases involving the school district and not allowing Christian parents to opt out of "sensitivity" training to promote homosexuality as a valid lifestyle..overturned in 2007 and the student was given court's blessing to sue the school....Obvious overreach of the same judge on the same type of matter.We know his position. ( God doesn;t matter)
We know Ms. Davies position.Only God matters, We know several couples sued/'made complaint for the marriage licenses not being issued, and that several same sex marriage licenses were obtained via her clerks on Friday... no one states how many; and that in itself is a little specious. you hang around and watch a gay couple film their time in the clerk;s office, and their crying for the camera, and then you don;t even follow up as to whether they were one of the couples given a license Friday? You never follow up on the other couples in the suit, did they choose to get a license elsewhere? Did they get licenses Friday? While no one can file with the court until Tuesday,(can be obtained only on week days, and Monday is a holiday,) as a marriage license is not the final step, has anyone followed up on whether the couples who sued actually got married? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, so how many people get married in the US every year? rather than long drawn out quotes and numbers, here is the latest stats from Wikepedia "As of August 29, 2015, the United States has a total resident population of 321,628,000, making it the third most populous country in the world.[1] It is very urbanized, with 81% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2014 (the worldwide urban rate is 54%).[2] California and Texas are the most populous states,[3] as the mean center of U.S. population has consistently shifted westward and southward.[4] New York City is the most populous city in the United States.[5]" from the CDC for 2012
well, that's a good question. it seems no one wants to list any statistics. From website listing statistics for LGBT we find their latest stat is almost 600,000 gay people consider themselves in relationship. or 1,200,000 individuals.. that is less than 3 percent of the population.If approximately 50 percent do get married just as straight people do ( and of course, this is a fluctuating number; not everyone marries at the same time) that is 1.5 percent of the population or 18000 same sex people who might get married. All of this is probably too high an estimate, as those identifying as gay(male) in Britain are 1.5 percent of the population.Gay women are ;07 of the population. well, there's our 3 percent again.When the Kinsey figure of ten percent (male) homosexual lie unraveled, gay activists sought out other groups to bolster their number. Even as LGBT as the handle, that's about 5 percent of the US population, which somewhere between 1 and 2 percent being men who identify as gay.Even in Sweden, only 5% of gay men marry. from USA today in 2013 "Another estimate, by the Williams Institute at UCLA's School of Law, suggests 114,100 legally married same-sex couples, based on Census data. The institute studies LGBT trends." Pew reports.an even lower. number.71,000 in total in 2013 and mainly occurring in Massachusetts, California, and New York.We will never get any concrete numbers from this point on because too many states have substituted spouse or similar terminology and dropped the terms husband and wife. Nor will we be able to obtain divorce statistics, which are claimed to be less for same sex marriages, but the logjam created by a patchwork quit of laws has broken and divorces are being filed across the country.People are people...so if we can count on 1 percent or so of all marriages being same sex marriage, and some places touted the revenue from weddings as a positive, I guess lawyers can start looking at those numbers and figuring out .5 percent of the total number as expected income? In other words, gay marriage is almost statistically insignificant, and it is largely concentrated in urban environments (as are 81 percent of all Americans)... so how do multiple gay couples show up for marriage licenses in a tiny rural county in Kentucky? Do these couples even live in that county? Has any news organization bothered to follow up on any of these folks? Of course not, the story is a public hanging of a mean homophobic clerk.It is to put fear into anyone who resists the changes (and PS, the Supreme court cannot make law, Legislatures need to rewrite their laws to reflect the decision. none have.) and PS...Kim Davies is not the only county clerk not complying But no one else has faced jail Counties not complying with Obergefell ruling Counties not issuing marriage licenses to any couples (grey) in Alabama, the state with the lowest compliance to Obergefell v. Hodges, as of 2015 September 4. 6% of the population live in counties that no longer issue marriage licenses. While marriage licenses are available to all couples who wish to marry within the United States (except in American Samoa), fifteen counties, all in Alabama, Kentucky, and Texas, still do not issue licenses to same-sex couples.[86] Alabama: As of September 4, 2015, eleven counties issue no marriage licenses at all rather than supply them to same-sex couples. State law grants county clerks authority to issue marriage licenses but does not specifically require them to do so (the law states they "may" issue).[87] Kentucky: The clerk of Rowan County, Kim Davis, repeatedly refused to issue licenses despite being ordered to by the Governor and multiple Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court which unanimously denied her request for a stay on August 31, 2015.[88] The clerks of Casey and Whitley Counties also refused to comply with the orders. Davis was found in contempt of court and jailed on September 3, 2015.[89] Other clerks from her office agreed to grant licenses starting the next day rather than be jailed themselves, but the legality of licenses not signed by the elected county clerk might be in question.[90] Knott County officials never confirmed that they would issue licenses to same-sex couples.[91] Texas: Irion County flatly refuses to issue licenses to same-sex couples. No legal challenge has been made regarding this refusal There is something rotten in this whole story It statistically legally and morally does not make sense. Kim Davies IS a political prisoner for Christ She was from such a small place, with a judge overseeing known to be pro-gay issues. It was a perfect set up for activists, and i suspect that is exactly what happened.. |
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