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	<title>Comments on: A Voice of Reason in Kern Co.</title>
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		<title>By: Glenn I</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glenn I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What if employees of the county clerk defied la Barnett and went ahead and officiated at weddings? Would they be fired? Disciplined? If they were, could they sue her?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if employees of the county clerk defied la Barnett and went ahead and officiated at weddings? Would they be fired? Disciplined? If they were, could they sue her?</p>
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		<title>By: Regan DuCasse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Regan DuCasse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The prejudice that requires horns to be consistent.
  This religious objection can and does only have opportunity because a gay couple has horns, so to speak.
Like the mixed couples before them, they have the visible mark to segregate them from the other couples whose sins and predilictions don&#039;t show their horns.

    The adulterers, the divorced, the criminals, the murderers, the liars and cheats and thieves...ironically, have no horns.
  The Campaign for Children and Families is encouraging all clerks to deny gay couples their licenses.
And consider themselves wearing the mantle of noble civil disobedice, like the civil rights workers before them for doing so.

  How pathetically WHACK is that?! It was the clerks objecting to mixed marriages who withheld their duty. If the CFCF were consistent with civil RIGHTS advocates, they&#039;d WANT the gay couples to have the licenses.


   If ALL couples are denied licenses, this WOULD be consistent at least with the religious protest.
But the TIMING of such a protest WOULDN&#039;T be.
Because for that objection to be consistent, then these people wouldn&#039;t be clerks in the first place because the horns of the OTHER couples wouldn&#039;t allow them to know if they are carrying out their beliefs consistently. And would have given up their positions long ago.

    And what this really does is lessen the opportunity for the county to collect money from the marriage fees. If this county has so many people living on Brokeassed Mountain, it&#039;s supremely selfish of the clerks to not allow such much needed funds into the coffers.

   This is a prime example of prejudice doing NO GOOD, but bigotry creating no winners.

  And a morally sound principle, like equality under the law, always has winners. It&#039;s just that some people don&#039;t know it yet, and refuse to see it that way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The prejudice that requires horns to be consistent.<br />
  This religious objection can and does only have opportunity because a gay couple has horns, so to speak.<br />
Like the mixed couples before them, they have the visible mark to segregate them from the other couples whose sins and predilictions don&#8217;t show their horns.</p>
<p>    The adulterers, the divorced, the criminals, the murderers, the liars and cheats and thieves&#8230;ironically, have no horns.<br />
  The Campaign for Children and Families is encouraging all clerks to deny gay couples their licenses.<br />
And consider themselves wearing the mantle of noble civil disobedice, like the civil rights workers before them for doing so.</p>
<p>  How pathetically WHACK is that?! It was the clerks objecting to mixed marriages who withheld their duty. If the CFCF were consistent with civil RIGHTS advocates, they&#8217;d WANT the gay couples to have the licenses.</p>
<p>   If ALL couples are denied licenses, this WOULD be consistent at least with the religious protest.<br />
But the TIMING of such a protest WOULDN&#8217;T be.<br />
Because for that objection to be consistent, then these people wouldn&#8217;t be clerks in the first place because the horns of the OTHER couples wouldn&#8217;t allow them to know if they are carrying out their beliefs consistently. And would have given up their positions long ago.</p>
<p>    And what this really does is lessen the opportunity for the county to collect money from the marriage fees. If this county has so many people living on Brokeassed Mountain, it&#8217;s supremely selfish of the clerks to not allow such much needed funds into the coffers.</p>
<p>   This is a prime example of prejudice doing NO GOOD, but bigotry creating no winners.</p>
<p>  And a morally sound principle, like equality under the law, always has winners. It&#8217;s just that some people don&#8217;t know it yet, and refuse to see it that way.</p>
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