• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    US district judge David Bunning said that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official”.

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    During this week’s trial, Davis argued that she was protected from litigation due to qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects government officials from lawsuits accusing them of violating someone’s constitutional rights.

    “I shouldn’t have to do this thing because of my beliefs.”

    “I shouldn’t be guilty because I was acting on behalf of the government.”

    Pretty big valley between these two arguments. Roast this fucking turd.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      “Good Christian” Adulterer Kim Davis conceived twins with her lover while married to another man.

      “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death” (Leviticus 20:10)

      Yet another example of an evangelical conservative expecting to be protected by laws but not bound by them, while everyone else is to be bound by laws but not protected by them.