At first glance Kim Davis seems an unlikely trendsetter, but, alas, another public servant has followed her lead and is citing his religious beliefs as way to prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
Marion County Judge Vance Day, a former chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, has requested his clerks send same-sex couples planning to be married to other county judges. An ethics investigation has been launched as a result of his decision.
Day has been granted permission by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission to create a legal defense fund for himself to cover expenses he anticipates to incur during the pending investigation.
Marion County judges are not required to perform any marriages of any kind and Day stopped performing them last Spring, just prior to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage in June.
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Louis
These People are truly beneath the gutter especially as so called human beings much less as Christians.
1EqualityUSA
One mosquito more.
Jonathon Popphan
Fine. If he won’t perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples, then relieve him of the authority to perform wedding ceremonies for anyone.
Brian JC Kneeland
but Judges there are not required to perform marriages – so he has an out of sorts!
Paul Houck
He just needs a Boyfriend
Conrad Max
I guess he wants to be a hero like his pal Davis.
There is a trend forming here. A trend to destroy America. America which stands for freedom and justice for all.
Who put the boneheads in office?
Bill Lawson
It appears to me that the only people we will be able to elect to a public office or who will be able to form any type of public service will be atheist they won’t mind upholding the oath they take and treating everyone equally
Conrad Max
Is he going to use money generated from tax payer’s to pay for his defense? Money from all peples, whether Straight or Gay? Shouldn’t he have someone sort through the money to keep it seperated?
And he is anticipating that he will need a defense? He is an attention seeker jumping on the bandwagon started by Davis. He should be relieved of his duties to save the tax payer’s some money.
Gary Hecklinger
Contempt!!!!
Pat O'Toole
Another FRICKIN’ WACKO looking for attention.
Probably hoping for a REALITY SHOW with KIM DAVIS.
Bob Pattinson
Another bigot who can smell his god – money.
Mike Benevenstanciano
All the nuts jumping on board for their 15 minutes of fame, fooling themselves into thinking their life is a reality show people want to watch.
Alex Ayala
He needs to take a long & lingering look in his closet. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
Alford S. Sean
Ass.
Matthew Katz
Knew that was going to happen. Hope be saved for retirement
DuMaurier
Wait…so he stopped performing marriages last spring, and now he’s directing same-sex couples to other judges? If he stopped marrying people how did this come up? Or did he start again but only for straight couples? As usual, I’ll need to do some Googling to fill in the missing pieces.
Ron King
Unfit to judge,what kinda judge is biased?
Kevin Kennedy
Leonard Woodrow
It seems incompetent twiys are to be found even in the judiciary.
Leonard Woodrow
It seems incompetent twits are to be found even in the judiciary.
Peter Grant
Disbar
Matthew Matula
Bored with his Ashley Madison account, obviously no replies. Lmao what an asshole.
Peter McKinney
Time for him to go. #DoYourJob
Hal-James Pederson
Have a lovely time in jail. They love same sexes there.
William Meyer
Another one bites the dust…..soon!
tsmithknox
Translation: I want attention too!
Sameer Nurani
Here it goes again. Kim tell him that you had learn the hard way!
ingyaom
Why does he hate America?
captainburrito
If it is not a core function of his job but simply that he can conduct them… then what is the problem if he does not conduct any?
charlieeod74
This asshole is just grandstanding, cashing in on the Kim Davis debacle in KY.
Ivan Alberto Lugo
Jail his ass
Kirk Montrealer
This judge looks gay
Ladbrook
I read somewhere on the internet that he was gay (which means it’s true) so I can’t understand why he’d refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
paul dorian lord fredine
if he’s not required to perform any marriages and other judges are available, then who’d want him anyway? sounds like just another lazy schmuck looking for a way to get a long weekend whenever possible. as for his ‘defense fund’: as long as it’s there ONLY for the reason for which he said it was created and not to pay for hookers, drugs and his third wife’s boob job. i hope it goes untouched for years and then doesn’t get turned over for his private use. it’s not a pension fund. he can donate it to a local aids charity. besides, the role of fundamentalist martyr-bigot of the year has already been filled; kim beat you to it.
crowebobby
@captainburrito: He has requested his clerks send same-sex couples planning to be married to other county judges . . . so he’s not just refusing to do them he’s stopping others from doing them.
Robert Tasseff Mitrevski
He sounds like a huge power bottom that is sad that got dumped by a gay possum lol
Gee Rosato
Good lord another thimblecocked douchebag confused on civics lesson 101
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HAS A CONSTITUTION AND IS
NOT GOVERNED BY ANY
RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE.
That is how the founders of the country wanted it; they only stated and wrote rules and laws in about 1,700 different places that no religion and government should mix and that the USA was not founded ON ANY RELIGION!!!
REPEATEDLY THAT SAID THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND
O
V
E
R
AGAIN
Shaun Adams
he just showed his true colors! hes not fit to be a judge, how many people have been miss judge by him because of his views? he has to go! so glad i dont live in a gun wielding, hateful country like the USA, that country and burn in hell for all i care!
Joey Nesbitt
Stuart Senften
What is this Bastard’s reason?? I want to know what religion he subscribes to?? probably Mormon or Baptist!!
William Holahan
Here we go again, and again.
Mark Pilsnik
An Ohio Judge refused Gay weddings. that worked for a week.
Kevin J Desmond
Ok so he’s an out and out bigot which now he has to be removed from the bench, he’s just now proven he’s a bigot. I’m now wondering how many people from the LBGT community who’s rights he’s violated while on the bench.
Bill Crossfield
he looks like a closet case to me
Alex Davidson
A lot of these people seem to be seeking attention.
Michael Piccolo
An ethics investigation could result in removal from the bench, and disbarment
Randy Judd
A: The CotFSM has no judgement on same sex marriage, for/against; that is to say, all are welcome into the loving embrace of His Noodly Appendage.
R’Amen
Bailey Bednar
To jail with you too! Burn the witches!
Amy Ledesma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhX_bUubQM
Rodney Church
Well then, lock him up too! A judge should understand the LAW but, since he can’t distinguish law from his belief take a mugshot of him
Douglas Schlitz
What part of PUBLIC SERVANT does this dumb ass not understand ?
Jamal Gregory Baghdadi
Him and Kim can be jail buddies!!! ð???
Alan Burnside
Susan Maselli
New bffs!
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Roy Lewis
Damn–another bigot!!
Michael A. Hann
Take him down. He should know better
Giancarlo85
Disbarred. That’s the one word I’ll use. And he’ll be removed too. Violating a Surpeme court directive can result in serious consequences.
Jerry Hoffmann
another judge should be made available, he is actually preforming the wedding not just a clerk like in Ky
Sweetie Pie
He’ll end up marrying Kim Davis and breeding with her
jwtraveler
@Bill Lawson: I’m with you 100%.
Captain Obvious
Jail time!
jkb
But as a judge, he could send a person he knows to be innocent to jail or another who was guilty free, but this is where his conscious steps in? Repugnant.
Captain Obvious
@Bill Lawson: Pfft, I’ve had many an “atheist” try to spread their so called belief in nothing like it’s a religion itself. Most atheists I’ve ever met have been total hypocrites and some lean on Satanist hiding behind atheism.
It’s pretty much impossible to believe in absolutely nothing and think you just got here all by yourself. Rather force a bigot to do their job than have someone who’s ego is too big to at least believe something greater than self got us here.
Brian Morris
Oh great a male version of Kim Davis
Shanestud
“Day has been granted permission by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission to create a legal defense fund for himself” If a couple of Pizza shop owners who don’t want to cater gay weddings can GoFundMe more that $800,000, can you imagine what a Christian judge can raise to defend himself”?
Greg Elman
Writers, use active voice please. 😉
Ives Meagher
Fuking Activist Judges…George Bush was right!
scotshot
@Conrad Max: The article states that he has permission from the State to create a legal defense fund for himself.
When the Ethics Commission is investigating you, yes, it’s good idea to have an attorney.
scotshot
Thanks for the lesson based on religious hysteria. Everything you’ve stated is bullshit, and you’re in it so deep your eyeballs are brown.
I’d give you a tutorial as to what Atheism actually is, and how we got here, but like others of your crowd, willful ignorance rules and will stop any chance of communication.
One thing, though: “….and think you got here all by yourself….” that comment of course, is a talking point from your crowd. But let’s contrast that to your claims that a supernatural “god” just popped into existence out of nothing, created the world and Universe out of nothing, and created any and all life in the Universe (again) out of nothing.
I find all too often that people believe they don’t have to worry about their actions here as they will have eternity to spend with Jesus.
scotshot
@Captain Obvious: NOTE: The above post is in reply to Cam’s “fairy tales”, above.
scotshot
@Captain Obvious:
Actually it’s in rely to Captain obvious’ post!
Past my bedtime!
Merv
“Marion County judges are not required to perform any marriages of any kind and Day stopped performing them last Spring”
Then what’s the problem? This is very unlike the Kentucky clerk who is refusing to do her job.
Jessie Munguia
I hear unemployment in his future
Bassman60
There is nothing to support “prevent same-sex couples from marrying.” This guy is not required to conduct marriages at all. He is allowed to do so and, whether we like it or not, he has the same RIGHT that a Priest, Rabbi or Imam have to marry or not marry whomever they choose.
Bassman60
@Jessie Munguia: For not doing something that he’s not required to do when no one’s rights have been violated?
Bassman60
@Brian Morris: This is entirely different. He is not required to marry anyone. No one is being prevented from marrying and no one’s rights are being violated. He is allowed to marry people and like an Orthodox Rabbi, ship captain or justice of the peace, he has a right to marry or not marry whomever he chooses for whatever reason.
Bassman60
@Roy Lewis: Are all Priests, Rabbis and Imams bigots?
Bassman60
@Rodney Church: The law does not require him to marry anyone. No one’s rights have been violated.
Bassman60
@Stuart Senften: His religion is irrelevant. Welcome to America. First visit?
Bassman60
@Giancarlo85: He is not violating anything. He is allowed but not required to conduct any marriages. No one’s rights have been violated. No one has been prevented from marrying.
Let’s not make the Right right about us attacking people for what they believe instead of what they do.
Orthodox Rabbis, Priests and Imams are not bigots because they believe something we don’t believe. They have rights too.
Bassman60
@Kevin J Desmond: So all Orthodox Rabbis are bigots?
Bassman60
@Jonathon Popphan: So all Catholic priests should be stripped of the right to marry people?
Ya know, the First Amendment is as valid as the Fourteenth.
Paul Huber
I just love a launch of an ethics violation investigation
Louis
@Bassman60: No he doesn’t especially under the blanket of discrimination and personal prejudices.
You sound like nothing more then a simple apologist for people like this.
As a Judge he is supposed to do his job not show any personal biases towards those he has an issue with in a moral or religious viewpoint.
Thankfully though he doesn’t make up the majority of what judges in this country believe is constitutional and fair.
He is but one voice of dissension and intolerance amongst a screaming crowd continuously fighting for whats right and fair in this country.
I cant believe you seem to act so self righteous about this acting as if we don’t have the right to disagree with this mans mentality and attitude towards us as human beings.
This country is not a theocracy we are living in its SUPPOSED to be key word SUPPOSED to be a Democracy period.
Religion belongs in churches and in the sanctuary of their own homes not in public office not in a judicial system and not in the work place.
After all we don’t go into someones home or personal space and tell them that they cant marry the person they love that’s what they do to us ….constantly in this country and then they hide behind the predictable excuse and justification of religious values or morals to do so.
Louis
@Bassman60: Using ones beliefs to actively infringe upon another human beings rights is not a right .
Actively voting against whether a person can marry the person that they love is unconstitutional and Unamerican .
Placing our civil right and human right up on a ballot for people to vote on is not a right either .
Where exactly have we voted whether these people can pray in their churches or not?
We haven’t that’s the point we aren’t the ones infringing upon their rights they are doing that to us simply because we are gay americans and they don’t even try to accept , understand , or respect that or us for that matter.
Louis
@Captain Obvious: I am atheist and Im afraid to say that what you just did was make a blanket statement against atheists in general.
Isn’t what you just wrote a form of intolerance ?
I respect your right to believe whatever it is you wish to believe in that’s your right.
However why lessen or belittle those of us who are simply nonbelievers ?
The only Christians I’ve ever actually had a problem with are those who act superior towards others because to me that’s a lack of humility as well as compassion for others .
Its also hard to respect some who identify themselves as Christians who happily get off on referring to us as faggots queers and that we are going to rot in their hell they are always threatening and trying to scare us with.
Its even harder to respect some who identify as Christians when they get off on mocking the death of someones loved one as I experienced personally years ago.
Identifying as a Christian then mocking the loss of a parent claiming it was your KARMA for being gay is totally Unchristian and hateful as well.
Its very hard to respect people who know full and good well that they rarely if ever show respect to us as human beings always belittling us mocking us condemning us on a daily basis in this country.
If they themselves (not all mind you) were capable of actual respect and compassion then we could easily afford them the same fairness and decency as human beings.
But a person has right to expect respect from someone else if they aren’t even capable of showing it to begin with.
That’s the problem with many Christians nowadays they expect us to immediately respect their rights yet they consistently and actively try to violate ours as Americans.
Louis
@Bassman60: Not necessarily considering 99% of the time that is always a reasoning behind decisions such as this one.
Bassman60
There is no evidence that he has infringed on anyone’s rights. No one has been denied the right to marry. He has instructed his staff to send people to judges who will marry them and, in so doing, has facilitated their marriages.
He is being judged by his beliefs and not his actions and that’s just wrong. He has a right to believe what I don’t believe.
The notion that he should be punished for doing something that he is not required to do is just silly.
Whether we like it or not, Rabbis, ship captains, justices of the peace and judges, who are ALLOWED to marry people cannot be COMPELLED to marry anyone. That’s basic First Amendment.
Not all Catholic priests are bigots and should not be judged as bigots until they actually do something to justify the accusation.
Bassman60
@Louis: As for “That’s the problem with many Christians nowadays they expect us to immediately respect their rights yet they consistently and actively try to violate ours as Americans”
The shoe is on the other foot here. A negative generalization based on religion “many Jews are cheap,” “many Muslims are terrorists” and assuming that any individual has that negative quality is, let’s call it ethically problematic. Americans should expect to have their rights respected. I expect that. You expect that. We all expect that. This is America.
There are people who are allowed to marry people and only marry same-sex couples and send straight couples to someone else. They are not discriminating against anyone. They should not be jailed,lose their jobs or not be allowed to marry anyone unless they marry straight people too. No?
Bauhaus
@Bassman60:
Imagine if judgmental Judge Vance Day sent other couples down the road: interracial, Jewish, Hispanic, divorced, poor… ‘They aren’t our kind, dear’ doesn’t cut it.
Kangol
Why are these white Christian officials so hom0phobic? Why do they hate gays so much that they’d take such stands to prevent gay people from having equal rights under the law?
1EqualityUSA
Kangol, As long as humans with egos exist on this Planet’s surface, there will be those who consider themselves to be of superior birth. Human nature. Judges should rise above this. Some don’t.
Transiteer
A Judge who refuses to enforce the Law?? This is what happens when you elect a bumf*ck to the job, rather than have a ‘professional’ judiciary like other western nations do. You want amateur, you got amateur. Judges should be mandated to be Atheist to insure they do what they’re there to do fairly.