September 05, 2015:
The Religious Beliefs Of Kim Davis, The Anti-Gay Clerk Who Refuses To Do Her Job, Explained
by Jack Jenkins
Sep 2, 2015 4:22pm
On Monday, a same-sex couple entered the county clerk’s office of Rowan County, Kentucky to ask for a marriage license. Kim Davis, the local county clerk, refused, openly defying the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. When the couple demanded to know under whose authority she could deny them their legal right, Davis appealed not to the high courts, but to a higher power.
“Under God’s authority,” she said defiantly, staring back at the questioner.
The incident was one of the several instances where Davis has declined to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, often justifying her position by citing her faith — an action that even conservative think tanks agree is probably illegal. But while the legality of Davis’ actions will likely be resolved at a Thursday court hearing, many have pointed out that Davis’ own life invalidates her claim to spiritual superiority over LGBT people: Davis has reportedly committed adultery and been divorced three times, things that are explicitlyprohibited in the Bible. Davis’ detractors argue that if she applied the same righteous fervor to other parts of scripture as she does to her opposition to homosexuality, then she shouldn’t have received licenses for some of her own marriages.
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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/09/02/3698100/kim-davis-hypocritical-theology/
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Revealed: Kentucky clerk refusing to issue gay marriage licenses has been married FOUR times and gave birth to twins out of wedlock
The defiant Kentucky clerk who will not issue gay marriage licenses has been married four times and had twins out of wedlock, court records revealed.
Kim Davis, who on Tuesday continued to refuse the licenses despite a Supreme Court ruling against her, divorced in 1994, 2006 and 2008.
Davis, 49, gave birth to twins five months after she divorced her first husband.
The twins' father was identified as her third husband, according to records obtained by the U.S. News and World Report.
Davis' second husband adopted the twins after they wed.
She has been married twice to her current husband, Ed Davis.
The leader of Liberty Counsel, which is providing Davis' legal representation, said her past does not matter because her slate was wiped clean four years ago when she converted to Christianity.
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Russia and Nato 'actively preparing for war'
12:01AM BST 12 Aug 2015
Russia and Nato are actively preparing for war with one another amid the greatest build up of military tension in Europe since the end of the Cold War, a new report says.
Rival exercises by the Russian armed forces and Nato have led to several near-miss incidents that could result in confrontation between the two sides, and leaders need to consider a new arms control treaty to avert the possibility of heightened tensions spilling into war.
The report by the European Leadership Network, a think tank, comes amid the most intense fighting for six months in eastern Ukraine and as Michael Fallon, the defence minister, pledged to expand a British army training mission to Ukraine.
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US preparing for war with China and Russia to save the banks
By My Catbird Seat -Jun 1, 2015
Michael Billington, Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review
The United States is preparing for a possible war against China and Russia aimed at preventing the collapse of the Western banking system, an American political commentator and activist says.
Michael Billington, Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review and author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner: the Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday.
On Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned China to stop developing man-made islands in the South China Sea, vowing that the United States would not stop patrolling international waters and airspace in the Asia-Pacific region.
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http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/06/us-preparing-for-war-with-china-and-russia-to-save-the-banks/
Migrant Chaos Mounts While Divided Europe Stumbles for Response
LONDON — The struggle among European leaders to develop a coherent response to the spiraling migrant crisis intensified on Thursday as fresh calls for a blocwide plan were met with recriminations about the Continent being swamped with Muslims.
Even as wrenching photographs of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy riveted world attention and galvanized public demands for action, the leaders’ first fumbling efforts seemed only to highlight Europe’s divisions, as they bickered over who should take responsibility for the migrants rather than unifying around a new policy.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/world/europe/hungary-train-station-migrant-crisis.html?_r=0
