CHRISTIAN IN SHACKLES
FOR DEFENDING GOD'S WORD;
FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS KIM DAVIS BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR JAILING;
PERSECUTION OF A RIGHTEOUS CHRISTIAN
Matthew 10:32-"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven."
Luke 21:12-"But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake."
Acts 5:29-"Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
ROMAN CATHOLIC JUDGE BIASED/PREJUDICED?
PUPPET OF POPE PLAYS HIS DUTIFUL CATHOLIC ROLE IN PERSECUTING
BIBLE BELIEVER
QUOTES: David Bunning was raised Roman Catholic, graduated in 1984 from Newport Central Catholic High School, and his mother said his faith is still important to him.
“He’s a great guy,” his mother Mary Bunning said. “He loves the Lord. He loves family. What else more can you expect of a young man?” “David is an honest person,” Mary Bunning said. “He doesn’t agree with the Supreme Court but has to obey the law.”
TYRANNICAL STATEMENT:
MAN'S LAW OVER GOD'S LAW
“Personal opinions, including my own, are not relevant to today,” Bunning, a federal district judge, told Davis and the courtroom Thursday. “The idea of natural law superseding this court’s authority would be a dangerous precedent indeed.”
EXCERPTS FROM:
"Allowing Kim Davis, who previously has said she is an Apostolic Christian, to defy a court order could create a ripple effect among other county clerks, Bunning said. Two other clerks in the state — Casey Davis in Casey County and Kay Schwartz in Whitley County — also had stopped issuing marriage licenses but have not had lawsuits filed against them."
""Her good-faith belief is simply not a viable defense," said Bunning, who said he also has deeply held religious beliefs. "Oaths mean things.""
DAVIS: “And if I left, resigned or chose to retire, I would have no voice for God’s word," calling herself a vessel that the Lord has chosen for this time and place.
“She is not a martyr. No one created a martyr today," Laura Landenwich said. "Kim Davis had two opportunities to comply with the law, and she chose not to.”
Bunning agreed and said fines for Kim Davis, who makes $80,000 a year, would not be enough to ensure that she would follow his orders. He also raised concerns that supporters would pay any fine he levied, dampening its force.
"I don't do this lightly," he said of his decision to jail her. "It's necessary in this case."
Timeline of dissent
Soon after the Supreme Court ruled to allow gays to marry, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis decided to stop offering any marriage licenses through her office.
• June 26. Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states must recognize and allow same-sex marriage. Later that Friday, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear directs county clerks to comply.
• June 29. Davis declines to issue marriage licenses on Monday, saying the new law of the land conflicts with her religious beliefs.
• July 2. American Civil Liberties Union sues Davis and Rowan County on behalf of four couples, two gay and two straight.
• July 8. Some county clerks ask for a special session of the Kentucky Legislature to pass a bill to accommodate those who have religious reasons for not issuing the licenses. Beshear says no, in part because of the expense.
• Aug. 12. U.S. District Judge David Bunning says Davis must issue licenses to same-sex couples.
• Aug. 27. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals declines to grant Davis a stay of Bunning's decision.
• Sept. 1. The Supreme Court refuses to grant Davis a stay.
BUSH POLITICAL APPOINTEE DEEMS HIMSELF HIGHER THAN GOD
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE DAVID BUNNING JR.
EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Bunning
"On September 4, 2001, Bunning was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated by William O. Bertelsman. In a report dated December 10, 2001, Bunning's nomination was not endorsed by the American Bar Association, and it was unusual for him not to withdraw from the nomination. Bunning was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 14, 2002, and received his commission on February 19, 2002."
1. He Was Assigned the Case After Another Judge’s Recusal
2. He Was Appointed to the Federal Court By President George W. Bush
3. He Is the Son of Former Senator & Hall of Fame Pitcher Jim Bunning
4. He Graduated From the University of Kentucky Law School
5. He Was a Federal Prosecutor Before He Became a Judge
HUSBAND OF KIM DAVIS:
"MY WIFE WAS JAILED ILLEGALLY";
"JUDGE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE LAW";
"MAY NOT HAVE A VALID LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW,
NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT'S WRITTEN ON"
WILL ASK GOVERNOR TO STEP DOWN
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"You can't be separated from something that's in your heart and in your soul," she told the judge, according to CNN affiliate WKYT-TV.
COPS WRAPPED A SHIRT AROUND HER HANDCUFFS;
PLACED CHAINS & SHACKLES ON ANKLES;
CHAIN AROUND WAIST
CHAIN AROUND WAIST
FROM:
ABOVE: James Yates, left, and William Smith Jr. speak with Rowan County Judge Executive Walter Blevins, right, in an attempt to obtain a marriage license in Morehead, Ky., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. In a decision Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses, but she has refused after filing an appeal the ruling to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis
leaving the federal courthouse
Kim Davis Attorney: Jailing Kim Davis
Won't Solve Problem
Published on Sep 3, 2015
Mat Staver says he was stunned that Kim Davis was ordered to jail for denying a Supreme Court order to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Mat Staver says he was stunned that Kim Davis was ordered to jail for denying a Supreme Court order to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Kim Davis, We Are Standing with You!
Published on Sep 3, 2015
County clerk Kim Davis has now been sent to prison for her faith. How do we respond? This is the very reason that the first principle in my new book Outlasting the Gay Revolution is “Never Compromise Your Convictions.”
County clerk Kim Davis has now been sent to prison for her faith. How do we respond? This is the very reason that the first principle in my new book Outlasting the Gay Revolution is “Never Compromise Your Convictions.”
Marching to the Battlefield to support Kim Davis
It is Illegal to be a Christian in America
Kim Davis stands firm on same-sex marriage; the Kentucky clerk stays in jail
Published on Sep 3, 2015
Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis was given a second chance: She didn't have to issue same-sex marriage licenses herself; she merely had to agree not to interfere with five deputy clerks who had told the federal judge they'd issue them in her stead.
But Davis' lawyer told U.S. District Judge David Bunning that his client would not allow her deputies to issue the licenses. Davis was not in the courtroom for the second session. She was in a hallway outside.
"We cannot represent to the court that she would allow licenses to be issued," attorney Mat Staver said.
Kim Davis case: Some GOP candidates rally around her
Staver later told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Davis would issue licenses if her name and title were not on them.
"Because that in her understanding and mind is authorizing something that is contrary to her Christian values and convictions," he said. "That's where the conscience rub is."
Earlier Thursday, Bunning remanded Davis into the custody of U.S. marshals for refusing to heed a U.S. Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage, saying she would remain in jail until she complies with the ruling.
Bunning then asked Davis' six deputy clerks whether they would issue the licenses, and despite some of them holding the same religious beliefs as Davis, five told Bunning they would issue the licenses. The sixth -- Davis' son, Nathan -- didn't answer.
Gov. Steve Beshear said the judge's decision "speaks for itself."
"The future of the Rowan County Clerk continues to be a matter between her and the courts. Deputy clerks have said they will commence issuing marriage licenses beginning (Friday)," he said. "It appears that the citizens of Rowan County will now have access to all the services from the clerk's office to which they are entitled."
The governor said he had no authority to use an executive order to relieve a county clerk of his or her duty.
Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis was given a second chance: She didn't have to issue same-sex marriage licenses herself; she merely had to agree not to interfere with five deputy clerks who had told the federal judge they'd issue them in her stead.
But Davis' lawyer told U.S. District Judge David Bunning that his client would not allow her deputies to issue the licenses. Davis was not in the courtroom for the second session. She was in a hallway outside.
"We cannot represent to the court that she would allow licenses to be issued," attorney Mat Staver said.
Kim Davis case: Some GOP candidates rally around her
Staver later told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Davis would issue licenses if her name and title were not on them.
"Because that in her understanding and mind is authorizing something that is contrary to her Christian values and convictions," he said. "That's where the conscience rub is."
Earlier Thursday, Bunning remanded Davis into the custody of U.S. marshals for refusing to heed a U.S. Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage, saying she would remain in jail until she complies with the ruling.
Bunning then asked Davis' six deputy clerks whether they would issue the licenses, and despite some of them holding the same religious beliefs as Davis, five told Bunning they would issue the licenses. The sixth -- Davis' son, Nathan -- didn't answer.
Gov. Steve Beshear said the judge's decision "speaks for itself."
"The future of the Rowan County Clerk continues to be a matter between her and the courts. Deputy clerks have said they will commence issuing marriage licenses beginning (Friday)," he said. "It appears that the citizens of Rowan County will now have access to all the services from the clerk's office to which they are entitled."
The governor said he had no authority to use an executive order to relieve a county clerk of his or her duty.
But Davis' lawyer told U.S. District Judge David Bunning that his client would not allow her deputies to issue the licenses. Davis was not in the courtroom for the second session. She was in a hallway outside.
"We cannot represent to the court that she would allow licenses to be issued," attorney Mat Staver said.
Kim Davis case: Some GOP candidates rally around her
Staver later told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" that Davis would issue licenses if her name and title were not on them.
"Because that in her understanding and mind is authorizing something that is contrary to her Christian values and convictions," he said. "That's where the conscience rub is."
Earlier Thursday, Bunning remanded Davis into the custody of U.S. marshals for refusing to heed a U.S. Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage, saying she would remain in jail until she complies with the ruling.
Bunning then asked Davis' six deputy clerks whether they would issue the licenses, and despite some of them holding the same religious beliefs as Davis, five told Bunning they would issue the licenses. The sixth -- Davis' son, Nathan -- didn't answer.
Gov. Steve Beshear said the judge's decision "speaks for itself."
"The future of the Rowan County Clerk continues to be a matter between her and the courts. Deputy clerks have said they will commence issuing marriage licenses beginning (Friday)," he said. "It appears that the citizens of Rowan County will now have access to all the services from the clerk's office to which they are entitled."
The governor said he had no authority to use an executive order to relieve a county clerk of his or her duty.
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Sunday, December 16, 2001Connections Factor In Judge Selection
Bunning's resume highlight: His father is a U.S. senator
SEE:
Bunning's resume highlight: His father is a U.S. senator
The Cincinnati Enquirer
When it comes to becoming a federal judge, who you know can be as important as what you know.
Take the case of Northern Kentucky's David Bunning, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Covington nominated by President Bush as a federal judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
![[photo]](http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/12/16/bunning_zoom.jpg) U.S. District Court Judge nominee David Bunning appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill last week. Behind him (right) is his father, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky.(Associated Press photo) | ZOOM | |
Mr. Bunning, 35, is younger by at least 13 years than the average age of 945 federal judges appointed since 1976. He was rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association's judiciary committee, which determined that Mr. Bunning doesn't have the experience to serve as federal judge.
Last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee — which must vote on his nomination — he was criticized for attending an unprestigious law school and compiling an unimpressive academic record while there.
But Mr. Bunning has something that could outweigh all the negative comments made about his nomination — a father who is a U.S. Senator.
Sen. Jim Bunning, a Southgate Republican, recommended that President Bush nominate the youngest of his nine children for the federal judgeship in Covington being vacated by the retiring William Bertelsman.
When David Bunning was nominated by the president in August, Jim Bunning, 70, a member of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, said his son “perfectly fit the model that the president has said he wants to follow in filing judicial vacancies — competent, qualified individuals who will firmly apply the law, and who will interpret the Constitution, not try to rewrite it.”
Legal experts who study the federal judiciary say connectionsare at least as important, if not more, than credentials when it comes to the appointments. And that can be a problem for candidates who may be qualified, but are from groups — the African-American community, recent immigrant communities, women — that historically have fewer connections in high places.
“It's a political process,” said Washington lawyer Judah Best, who sat on the ABA's judiciary committee during the 1990s. “More likely than not he or she is nominated because of a friend, a relative, a friend of a relative or a political connection.”
Sheldon Goldman, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of six books on the federal court system, said the most qualified candidates are often passed over.
“There are minimum qualifications, and from what I gather Bunning has that,” Mr. Goldman said. “But, "is he the best-qualified?' is obviously very debatable.
“It never hurts to have friends in high places.”
In many states — including New York, Wisconsin and California — nominating commissions appointed by legislatures or other state officials screen and recommend potential federal bench nominees.
But Kentucky and Ohio still operate on a sort of political patronage. When it came time to seek federal judge recommendations, Mr. Bush — a Republican — went to Sen. Bunning and Kentucky's other Senator, Louisville Republican Mitch McConnell, who chaired Mr. Bush's 2000 election campaign in Kentucky.
Along with David Bunning, Kentucky's senators recommended two other high-profile Kentucky lawyers:
• Karen Caldwell, 45, a former U.S. Attorney who helped oversee BOPTROT, an early 1990s federal probe into public corruption at the Kentucky statehouse. She once dated Mr. McConnell.
• Danny Reeves, 44. He once represented Covington-based Ashland Oil, one of Kentucky's largest corporations, and is a partner at the Lexington office of Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald.
Mr. Reeves and Ms. Caldwell have been approved, sailing through the confirmation hearing in November with little questioning.
The number of women and minorities increased during President Bill Clinton's terms.
Mr. Goldman found that 17.4 percent of Mr. Clinton's appointees were African-American, compared to 6.8 percent for George Bush and 2.1 percent for Ronald Reagan.
For women, those numbers are 28.5 percent for Mr. Clinton, 19.6 percent for Mr. Bush and 8.3 percent for Mr. Reagan.
Cincinnati lawyer Ken Lawson, an African-American, said he knows David Bunning and believes he's qualified for the federal bench. But Mr. Lawson would like to see more minorities considered for federal appointments.
“Definitely there needs to be more consideration, especially when we know that a good portion of the defendants that stand before the bar in federal court are African-American,” he said.
Connections may have played a role in President Clinton's 1995 appointment of lawyer Susan Dlott to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati.
Ms. Dlott's husband, attorney Stan Chesley, raised millions of dollars over the years for Mr. Clinton, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
And it is not unprecedented for a U.S. Senator to have a son up for a federal appointment.
Strom Thurmond Jr., the 29-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., has been nominated to serve as a federal prosecutor in South Carolina. His appointment is awaiting a vote by the full Senate.
But the case for Mr. Bunning has been tougher to make.
At 35, Mr. Bunning is 14 years younger than the average age of federal judges appointed by Presidents Clinton and Carter and 13 years younger than those tapped by Presidents George Bush and Ronald Reagan, according to research Mr. Goldman published in the March-April edition of Judicature, a journal printed by the Chicago-based American Judicature Society.
He was rated unqualified for the job by an American Bar Association (ABA) committee that studied his career, experience and education, making Mr. Bunning the only one of Mr. Bush's 64 judicial nominees to be so ranked.
With 10 years as an attorney — all of it spent prosecuting cases in federal court — Mr. Bunning falls short of the 12 years experience the ABA says is needed to be considered qualified for the lifetime appointment, which comes with a $142,000-a-year salary.
In testimony last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, ABA committee member David Weiner said Mr. Bunning compiled an unimpressive “middle-of-the-class law school record” at the University of Kentucky.
U.S. News and World Report magazine ranks UK's law school at 50th in the country, tying it with the University of Cincinnati's law school.
“It is a combination of average academics, limited civil experience, repetitious and routine criminal matters, writings which — in my words — "just do the job,' serious doubts by respected members of the bench and bar and no intellectual spark or legal enthusiasm that carry the day for our committee,” Mr. Weiner, a lawyer from Cleveland, told the Senate panel during Mr. Bunning's Dec. 10 confirmation hearing.
But the ABA apparently did not feel as strongly about Mr. Bunning's lack of qualifications as Mr. Weiner did. It asked a second lawyer, Mr. Best, to conduct another investigation into Mr. Bunning's background because of a split on the ABA's Judiciary Committee over his qualifications.
“He stands above the crowd,” Mr. Best told the committee, adding that Mr. Bunning is qualified for the appointment.
Mr. Best said complaints about nepotism and concerns raised over Mr. Bunning's education and experience were “background chatter” mainly fueled by resentment that a Senator's son landed the coveted appointment.
And the unqualified rating from the ABA hardly dooms federal judge nominees. According to the ABA, since 1981 five nominees have been rated unqualified — three were appointed, one died and one withdrew.
In the area of education, Mr. Bunning was criticized for graduating from UK's law school.
But research by Mr. Goldman found that only 20 percent of President Clinton's federal judge appointees attended a “prestigious” Ivy League law school.
“If we add ... such prestigious schools as Berkeley, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, New York University, Stanford, Texas, Vanderbilt and Virginia, the proportion of Clinton appointees with a prestige legal education rises to about 38 percent,” Mr. Goldman said. “The figure for the Bush appointees ... was 34 percent.”
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TED CRUZ DEFENDS KIM DAVIS
Imprisoned Kentucky County Clerk Rejects Proposal to Let Deputies Issue ‘Gay Marriage’ Licenses
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/imprisoned-kentucky-county-clerk-rejects-proposal-let-deputies-issue-gay-marriage-licenses/;republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
ASHLAND, Ky. — The Kentucky county clerk who was ordered to serve time behind bars until she agrees to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals has rejected a proposal to allow her deputy clerks perform the duty instead.Hours after she was taken into custody and transported to Carter County Jail, attorneys for Rowan County clerk Kim Davis said that she would not authorize her deputies to issue the licenses under her authority. The proposal had been offered as a compromise to release Davis from jail.The six deputies under Davis appeared before U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning this afternoon, and while most showed reluctance to issue the licenses, five out of six ultimately told the court they would do so. The lone voice of resistance was Davis’ son, Nathan, who said it was not possible for him to participate because of his Christian identity.However, some of those who agreed to sign the paperwork questioned whether or not they even had legal authority to issue the licenses without the authorization of the clerk. Davis’ attorneys also expressed doubt over whether such a move would be legal.Bunning, a Roman Catholic, said homosexuals would have to take that risk, and stated that he would release Davis from jail if her deputy clerks issued the licenses instead. However, he said that he would not release Davis forthrightly because of his concern that she would put a stop to it and the matter would again be back before the courts.As previously reported, Bunning, appointed to the bench by then-president George W. Bush, declared Davis in contempt of court this morning after she explained in tears that it is not possible for her to comply with the order because of her Christianity.“My conscience will not allow it,” she said. “God’s moral law convicts me and conflicts with my duties.While the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had requested that Davis be heavily fined until she bends, Bunning told the court that a monetary punishment would not be enough to force her to obey, and expressed concern that supporters would help pay her fine.“I don’t do this lightly,” he said. “It’s necessary in this case.”Davis was then taken into custody by U.S. marshals and led out of the courthouse.“Thank you, judge,” she stated as she was being escorted from the room.“I’ve weighed the cost and I’m prepared to go to jail. I sure am,” Davis told Fox reporter Todd Starnes on Wednesday. “This has never been a gay or lesbian issue for me. This is about upholding the word of God. This is a Heaven or Hell issue for me and for every other Christian that believes. This is a fight worth fighting.”Davis said that you can’t separate a person from their Christianity—it’s who they are and how they live.“I don’t leave my conscience and my Christian soul out in my vehicle and come in here and pretend to be something I’m not,” she stated. “It’s easy to talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?”Davis became a Christian in 2011 after living apart from Christ in a sinful lifestyle that resulted in several divorces. She said in a statement earlier this week that it was her mother-in-law’s dying wish that she attend church, which led to her repentance and faith in Christ. Davis states that those who are now criticizing her are welcome to repent of their sin and be born again just as she did four years ago.“All I can say to them is if they have a sordid past like what I had, they too can receive the cleansing and renewing, and they can start a fresh life and they can be different,” Davis told Starnes. “They don’t have to remain in their sin. There’s hope for tomorrow.”
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Coach Dave Speaking in Kentucky in Support of Kim Davis at Rally in Front of Courthouse VERY LOUD; CARS PASS BY SLOWLY
KIM DAVIS WON'T RESIGN OR BETRAY HER GOD
