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Research Paper On Should Kim Davis Go To Jail

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Should Kim Davis go to Jail? Kim Davis, a Kentucky County clerk, was jailed due to her lack of issuing licenses to same sex couples. The reason for this being because it goes against her religion. Some say she should be jailed for disobeying the law, while others think she shouldn’t be jailed for following her beliefs. The real question is, does Kim Davis deserve to be put in jail? Kim definitely should go to jail because she broke the law (source A). She directed her office to stop providing marriage licenses to any applicants (A), which takes away the Constitutional rights of others. Teressa Frazier said she, “thought Davis should be impeached for her refusal to issue the licenses” (D). Impeachment would be a fabulous idea because it would get someone new in office who would follow the rules. The Supreme Court made same sex marriage legal while Kim was in office. Kim is, “supposed to do her job, not decide what it is,” ©. After staying the night in jail, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis tells her lawyers, “All is well,” adding that she …show more content…

“Ms. Davis wasn’t trying to prevent same- sex couples from getting marriage licenses at all; she just didn’t want her name or title on the paperwork. That’s why she wouldn’t allow her deputies to issue the licenses” (B). Kentucky provides additional protection against unnecessary government burdens on religion. Why don’t those apply to her? “The judge had already set arrangements in motion to put Davis in jail before the hearing had begun” (D). This is not fair at all. “Do we really want to say that an otherwise competent employee must quit or go to jail if there’s another alternative?” (B). April Miller, a woman who sued Kim after she and her partner were denied a license, stated, “we’re saddened by the fact that Ms. Davis has been incarcerated”. If the people she denied licenses to aren’t hurt, then why should anyone else care if she broke the law or

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