If Kim Davis ever decides the media coverage is too much to handle and wants to pack it up and head for greener pastures, she might give Marion County, Oregon, a try (apologies to the good people of Marion County).
Once there, she should immediately give Judge Vance D. Day a call to arrange a coffee date. They’d have lots to gab about, chiefly their shared mission to stand in the way of same-sex couples lawfully exercising their rights.
Judge D. Day is the subject of a months-long investigation into his refusal to marry same-sex couples.
Day’s spokesman contends that Day doesn’t have a problem with gay people, per say — he just didn’t want to be a part of their icky weddings.
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He instructed his staff that if any same-sex couple sought him as their wedding officiant, they should refuse and tell the couple to look elsewhere.
Judges are sworn to uphold “integrity, impartiality and independence.” Day seems to be focused a bit too much on that third point at the expense of the first two.
And oddly enough, this is miraculously the less offensive of the two allegations against Day.
That’s because he’s also facing scrutiny for hanging a picture of Hitler in the Salem courthouse, because nobody epitomizes integrity and impartiality like Adolf himself.
Yikes.
Billy Budd
Nut. He is a mental case.
McShane
Kim Davis is from Rowan county, Kentucky. Judge Vance Day, is in Marion County, Oregon.
Glücklich
What’s the saying? Whoever raises the Nazi thing first forfeits the argument?
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Quick Google:
Godwin’s law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Danny Driggers
Let that idiot stay in Oregon and stay out of the civilized part of the country
onthemark
Ugh. That odd *tableau* seems to indicate he’s a U.S. military veteran, which makes the Hitler stuff even more disturbing.
And Salem (Marion County) isn’t out in the sticks, it’s the state capital.
Michael R Schifferle
Actually i support his decision not to officiate weddings…provided he doesn’t interfere with others officiating, the county maintains other options available, and he refuses ALL weddings, not just the ones he doesn’t like.
Daniel-Reader
Creepy.
Glücklich
@onthemark:
OPERS and OIC are clients I’ve visited. Salem may not be Outer Mongolia but it being the state capital does not make it a thriving metropolis.
Ever been to Sacramento, Albany, Harrisburg, or Tallahassee? Shit pits.
McShane
This guy is super screwed.
Court assistants alleged that the judge put up a picture of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler without consulting anyone else on staff, and refused to take it down when other employees said it made them uncomfortable.
“When his judicial assistant removed the items while Judge Day was on vacation, Judge Day told her that he is a ‘benevolent dictator’ and that she ‘works at his pleasure,’” court documents obtained by KOIN read. It is not clear if “benevolent dictator” referred to Hitler or himself.
Day said a local doctor serving in World War II cut the portrait of Hitler from a German government building and sent it home. When the doctor died, his son donated memorabilia to the court. The Hitler portrait became part of a collage, surrounded and partially obscured by photographs, medals and the doctor’s diary entries, he said.
Also, all of this…
http://ballotpedia.org/Vance_Day
Craig Shapiro
No matter where you go, there’s the Klan.
Kevin Hurst
Time to step down. You obviously cannot be an impartial judge therefore you cannot execute your job properly or fairly.
Gary Hecklinger
Ok!! This concerns me to the point that is this judge bias?? Would I lose a case in front of this judge because I am gay?
Bob LaBlah
Folks, during and after the Dust Bowl people from Oklahoma, Kansas and other prairie states were given free land, more or less, if they relocated to the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. That entire region is made up mostly of their descendants, many of whom, as we can see, kept their great-grandparents values.
The white supremacists groups want that area as their “homeland” because they say it has yet to be totally infected with latinos, blacks and gays as is the rest of the nation. This guy is only saying and doing what they want but won’t say out loud. The length of his episode alone should tell you the mentality of the area.
Jesse Erickson
How do these people keep their jobs?
Alistair Wiseman
In typical Queerty fashion, never letting the facts get in the way of their agenda.
Bruce Dillon
Our in$aniTEAliban republiKKKlan$!
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Billy Budd
Isn’t this illegal in some way?
Jesse Darling
Honestly. I could care less if he doesn’t want to officiate my gay wedding, what I would care about is if he was preventing my legal marriage, which he is not, he is fine.
Paul Huson
I wonder if Judge Vance had problems in the past about folk presuming he was gay. Maybe he even got hit on in his youth.
captainburrito
If marriage is not part of his official duties but simply something he can officiate then he should be allowed to not officiate. Kim Davies doesn’t officiate, she just checks the applications and files the paperwork which is a mandatory duty.
gaym50ish
Is it my gaydar working overtime, or does that photo of the judge look a bit gay? Perfect hair. Cufflinks. Limp wrist. Hmmmmm
Bruce Maynard-Holly
Our courts r so corrupted. In every state.
SFHarry
With a name like Judge Fancie Bidet he’s got to be full of shit.
Sluggo2007
What do you expect? It’s Oregon for God’s sake!
M K
For those who are saying Salem (Marion County) isn’t in the stick because it’s the state Capitol, clearly haven’t been there… It is geographically and philosophically in the sticks – about 40 miles from Portland. However that said, Oregon is not conservative or backwoods. Out governor is openly Bi.
Glücklich
@M K:
It’s all people whose states capitals are in real cities e.g. Denver or Boston. I mean Sacramento and especially Albany blow my mind.
Glücklich
@SFHarry: Hysterical!
@Jesse Darling: Wow! You are super handsome.
Kangol
@Bob LaBlah: Thanks for supplying this history lesson. Oregon’s story is even more complex because it was founded in part as a white suprem@cist utopia.
Although it entered the US as a free (non-sl@very) state in 1859, right before the US Civil War began, its constitution actively barred free African Americans from settling there. (This was not the case with other states that entered the union during the Civil War, such as Kansas, West Virginia or Nevada.) In fact, it was illegal, under Oregon state law, for black people to move to Oregon until 1926!
Back to this judge, even if that display aims to honor the vet who served in World War II, having a portrait of the most murderous, r@cist and hom0phobic r!ght-wing dictator who ever lived hanging in a US federal building is grotesque and offensive. It insults the memory of the millions of US service people who fought and died to free Europe and the globe from H!tler’s clutches, and should be taken down immediately.
VADuck
@Danny Driggers: Oregon is a very liberal and civilized state. I lived the first 35 years of my life there (moved for a job) and never had any problems being gay. That said, there are bigots everywhere. Please don’t generalize an entire state due to one person’s actions. I don’t think everyone in Kentucky is a bigot just because of that homophobe Kim Davis.
catsura
@Danny Driggers: So Danny, you are saying that Oregon isn’t civilized?
Jaroslaw
The photo is definitely a war memorial to someone, but the large picture underneath is most definitely Hitler. Why? If it was a memorial, the large picture should be of THAT person.
John
I wouldn’t want someone like him to perform my ceremony. I would want to find someone who was happy and participate in our celebration. Years ago when we married in Provincetown, when we applied for our license we were given a list of people who performed marriages and then was also told, some of these people listed are not as comfortable as others. So they highlighted 2 or 3 that they knew would be happy about marrying us. We found one that was excited and happy for us.
Glücklich
@John:
Ours was someone at City Hall. Kept to the bare minimum *as requested*. We were in and out of there in like twenty minutes. We were both, like, let’s just sign the papers and get on with our day but I know *I* left feeling shocked and thinking “did we just do that?”
dwes09
@Jeff Scott: Marriage licenses have been required since 1639 in Massachusetts. They gradually spread from there. Given the legal confusion that arises from several different ways to contract for marriage, and the common law marriages that also existed it made sense to try and unify things. The requirement of marriage certificates did not end miscegenation laws, nor was that the intent, as the last of those laws were all struck down in 1967 by the Supreme Court.
Billysees
I…must be obedient to…the Word of God, Davis once wrote.
Then why isn’t she obedient to Romans 13:1-5?
1. Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.
2. So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.
3. For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. Would you like to live without fear of the authorities? Do what is right, and they will honor you.
4. The authorities are God’s servants, sent for your good. But if you are doing wrong, of course you should be afraid, for they have the power to punish you. They are God’s servants, sent for the very purpose of punishing those who do what is wrong.
5. So you must submit to them, not only to avoid punishment, but also to keep a clear conscience.
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