Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he thought Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, was right to “exercise the dictates of her conscience.”
Reporters spoke to McCain, previously the Republican presidential nomination, at the Values Voter Summit, an annual conference for Christian leaders.
“I think she was right in that she can exercise the dictates of her conscience and everyone should respect that,” McCain said. “I do not believe that therefore she should violate the law. She should have just said, ‘I refuse to do it.’ Just like Hobby Lobby case, which we won, because those people were allowed to exercise their religious beliefs by the United States Supreme Court.”
A reporter asked McCain to clarify.
“You think that Kim Davis could say, ‘I don’t want to perform this’?” the reporter asked.
“Yes,” McCain responded.
Watch his comments:
WHEWWW!!!
thanks for clarifying the Constitution you’ve taken several oaths to uphold…
now be a good boy and take Gen Mac’s advice and just fade away…
Nobody who says this sort of thing would ever imagine going to a government office and being told, “Sorry, you’re a Christian? It’s against my religious beliefs to issue you a building permit.” Or a marriage license. Or a driver’s license. Or whatever.
didn’t mccain use to be occassionly right? he’s pushing bill kristol on the 0 for the world list.
But for the accident of his birth, being the son and grandson of famous Admirals, this drooling moron would never have been heard from. Too bad his ejection seat worked.
As a private citizen, yes she is free to do so. However, as a civil servant who swore a godly oath to obey the Constitution, no she isn’t, Senator. It’s a flawed conscience, in deed, that doesn’t trouble her for breaking her oath.