Here is the official Vatican announcement from papal spokesperson Ferderico Lombardi. I coped it this article posted at the National Public Radio website:The brief meeting between Mrs. Kim Davis and Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC has...
For a solid overview of what this all means, I would recommend reading John Allen Jr.’s piece at the Catholic blog Crux.Here are some snippets that caught my attention: If anyone suspected that Pope Francis didn’t really mean the strong...
Here is a taste of the report:On Tuesday night, her lawyer, Mathew D. Staver, said in a telephone interview that Ms. Davis and her husband, Joe, were sneaked into the Vatican Embassy by car on Thursday afternoon. Francis gave her rosaries and told her to...
I wrote this post last night, so perhaps by now the Vatican has confirmed or denied whether or not Pope Francis met with Kim Davis. It is certainly possible that this is a fabrication, But it also possible that the...
According to reports from her legal team, Francis met with Kim Davis during his visit to Washington D.C. As many of you know, Davis is the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to...
This has to be one of the more spirited exchanges of the GOP debates last night. It came during the so-called “undercard” debate. Here is Rick Santorum and George Pataki on the Kim Davis case: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHc14PrmSE] Pataki is right...
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Several GOP presidential candidates have stepped-up to defend Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.Leading the charge on this front is Mike Huckabee. When Davis was released from prison yesterday Huckabee was...
From Professor Keith Beutler‘s Facebook page: Kim Davis, acting from her conscience, might do better by tendering a principled resignation. Consider what Robert Cover observed in his magisterial history of anti-slavery judges in pro-slavery jurisdictions in the nineteenth-century U.S.: “…The...
This is probably the strangest thing I have ever heard David Barton say. (And what are they doing filming this in a car? Where are they going?) Barton argues that because we are a “republic” and not a “democracy” the...
In case you haven’t heard, Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it violates her Christian beliefs.I appreciate Davis’s religious-inspired convictions about marriage. As long as religious liberty is part of the...
