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Title: Pope secretly met Kentucky clerk over gay marriage licenses
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URL Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pope-secr ... ed-gay-marriage-080339619.html
Published: Sep 30, 2015
Author: Alex Dobuzinskis and Philip Pullella
Post Date: 2015-09-30 09:05:49 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 337
Comments: 6

LOS ANGELES/VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis secretly met a Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and gave her words of encouragement, her attorney said.

Mat Staver, attorney and founder of the Liberty Counsel, told CBS News on Tuesday night that the pope met Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her husband at the Vatican embassy in Washington last Thursday during his visit to the United States.

Vatican chief spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said he would neither confirm nor deny the report and that there would be no further statement. This was unusual for the Vatican, which normally issues either denials or confirmations. The report of the meeting came after Francis largely avoided the contentious issue of same-sex marriage during his historic visit to the United States, where he addressed Congress, met with the homeless and urged the country to welcome immigrants.

The pope, speaking to reporters as he returned home from his 10-day trip to the U.S. and Cuba on Monday, said government officials had a "human right" to refuse to discharge a duty if they felt it violated their conscience.

Staver, whose client was jailed for five days in September for refusing to comply with a judge's order to issue the licenses in line with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, told CBS his team did not want to disclose the meeting until now to avoid interfering with the pope's broader message during his visit.

"Because we didn't want the pope's visit to be overshadowed with Kim Davis," Staver said in an interview on the network.

During the meeting, the pope told Davis to "stay strong", Staver said. Davis, whose parents are Catholic, has said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Her church belongs to a Protestant movement known as Apostolic Pentecostalism.

To keep a low profile, Davis went to the Vatican embassy in a sports utility vehicle with her hair in a different style than her normal look, Staver told CBS, adding he was not present.

Conservative Christians, including some Republican presidential candidates, have said Davis is standing up for religious freedom.

But the American Civil Liberties Union, which went to court to ensure same-sex couples can obtain marriage licenses in Rowan County, has argued she has a responsibility as an official to issue the licenses, regardless of her views. The ACLU, in papers filed on Sept. 21 with the judge hearing the case, asked the court to require Davis to stop making alterations to the licenses, such as removing any reference to the Rowan County clerk's office.

(This version of the story was refiled to fix acronym in last paragraph) (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, Curtis Skinner in San Francisco and Philip Pullella in Rome; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

"Because we didn't want the pope's visit to be overshadowed with Kim Davis," Staver said in an interview on the network.

Translation: we were ordered to hush it up lest poppa be caught taking an actual conservative stand in his Radical Leftist Victory Tour.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-09-30   12:23:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

Putting conscience ahead of the law is quite a radical stance for this day and age.

Ada  posted on  2015-09-30   18:52:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#2)

If the law is un-Constitutional, it's void ab initio.....

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-09-30   19:51:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Ada (#0)

I consider the source to be reliable.

But why is the Pope not Scripturally correct in public?

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2015-10-01   0:01:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

If the law is un-Constitutional, it's void ab initio.....

Many laws are unconstitutional but nevertheless are enforced at the point of a gun. Civilian nullification is still quite rare.

Ada  posted on  2015-10-01   10:17:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Ada (#5)

True true true. Nullification needed! There's not even a consciousness for it anymore.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-10-01   11:02:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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