This morning a court official in Kentucky named Kim Davis refused to grant a marriage license to a gay couple even though higher courts (including the Supreme Court) had ordered her to. She said she was acting under “God’s authority.”
Ms. Davis should be fired from her job immediately. We’re supposed to be a nation of laws. People charged with implementing those laws cannot substitute their own views of what God would prefer.
Republican candidates are stirring up these rightwing theocrats. A few nights ago Ted Cruz brought to the stage and lauded as “heroes” an Iowa Mennonite couple who refused to hold a same-sex wedding at their events space, an Oregon couple who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, and a former Atlanta fire chief who he says he was fired after releasing a self-published book in which he wrote that homosexuality was a “perversion” and morally equivalent to “pederasty” and “bestiality."
Cruz and many of his fellow Republican candidates are not only fomenting lawbreaking; they're fueling hate. Have they no shame?
Robert Reich
Ms. Davis should be fired from her job immediately. We’re supposed to be a nation of laws. People charged with implementing those laws cannot substitute their own views of what God would prefer.
Republican candidates are stirring up these rightwing theocrats. A few nights ago Ted Cruz brought to the stage and lauded as “heroes” an Iowa Mennonite couple who refused to hold a same-sex wedding at their events space, an Oregon couple who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, and a former Atlanta fire chief who he says he was fired after releasing a self-published book in which he wrote that homosexuality was a “perversion” and morally equivalent to “pederasty” and “bestiality."
Cruz and many of his fellow Republican candidates are not only fomenting lawbreaking; they're fueling hate. Have they no shame?
Robert Reich
