Pope Hints That Kim Davis Has ‘Human Right’ To Deny Marriage Licenses
Pope Francis spoke on a wide range of topics on his flight back to Italy.
On the flight back to Rome, he was asked if he supported individuals, including government officials, who refuse to abide by some laws, such as issuing marriage licenses to gays.
“Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right,” Francis said.
Earlier this month a city official in the U.S. state of Kentucky, Kim Davis, went to jail because she refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple following a Supreme Court decision to make homosexual marriage legal.
Click here for reuse options!Davis’s case has taken on national significance in the 2016 presidential campaign, with one Republican contender, Mike Huckabee, holding rallies in favor of Davis, a Apostolic Christian, who has since joined the Republican party.
“I can’t have in mind all cases that can exist about conscientious objection but, yes, I can say that conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right,” he said, speaking in Italian.
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12 responses to Pope Hints That Kim Davis Has ‘Human Right’ To Deny Marriage Licenses
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rg9rts September 28th, 2015 at 08:54
Not the legal right
whatthe46 September 28th, 2015 at 09:11
i thought the same thing. she may feel she doesn’t have to because of her “religion” or as a “person” but, legally she doesn’t have the right to deny anyone anything.
rg9rts September 28th, 2015 at 13:45
Then she is breaking the oath she took …right???
whatthe46 September 28th, 2015 at 13:57
right!!!
Jeffrey Samuels September 28th, 2015 at 08:55
I really don’t think he thought that through. I would like to believe that he meant in terms of people refusing to follow through on instructions that harm others, not allow them to prevent others from having the same rights as they have.
Then again, he is the leader of a rabidly anti gay church.
Lyndia September 28th, 2015 at 16:21
He is also the leader of a church that is widely known for its molestation of young boys by the priests and transferring them from parish to parish, when reports are filed against them. Lets not forget the Madelyn Laundries. Were those young girls were forced to have babies, who’s remains were found in a septic tank.
Budda September 28th, 2015 at 09:24
Conscientious objection is one thing but not doing what is required of your job is another.
mea_mark September 28th, 2015 at 09:46
Of course Kim Davis has the right to not issue Licenses for gay marriages. She can exercise that right anytime she wants and turn her job over to someone else who will. She does not have the right to keep her job and not perform her duties though.
allison1050 September 28th, 2015 at 10:13
But Pope Frankie, not as a public employee.
robert September 28th, 2015 at 10:44
kim has the human right to get another job if she doesn’t like her current job duties
Roctuna September 28th, 2015 at 11:08
“Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right,” I don’t disagree with that. However, there’s always consequences for such behavior. In the days of the draft, conscientious objectors spent time in jail and had to perform some kind of alternate service such as fighting forest fires in nat’l forests instead of serving in the military. Kim Davis can object all she wants, including refusing to issue licenses, but as so many here have pointed out, she doesn’t get to keep her job too if she won’t perform it.
bpollen September 29th, 2015 at 07:19
“”I, ….., do swear that I will well and truly discharge the
duties of the office of ………….. County Circuit Court clerk, according to the best of my
skill and judgment, making the due entries and records of all orders, judgments, decrees,
opinions and proceedings of the court, and carefully filing and preserving in my office all
books and papers which come to my possession by virtue of my office; and that I will not
knowingly or willingly commit any malfeasance of office, and will faithfully execute the
duties of my office without favor, affection or partiality, so help me God.”
Let’s see. You pledge to God to ” faithfully execute the duties of my office without favor, affection or partiality”. You, according to the Pope, have the “human right” to take the Lord’s name in vain, break an oath you took “so help me God”, and execute your duties with favor, affection and partiality.
So, to sum up, the Pope says that you have the human right to violate the 3rd Commandment, the 8th Commandment, and the 9th. This isn’t your father’s Pope.