Wisconsin Attorney General Threatens People Who Obey Court Ruling
I just love how right wing Talibaptist types think that the law does not apply to them:
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday that same-sex couples who have wed in recent days are not married in the eyes of the law and that county clerks issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples could be prosecuted.After all, who has to listen to some judge anyway?
Also Thursday, Republican Gov. Scott Walker backed Van Hollen's work defending the gay marriage ban but sidestepped questions on whether clerks should be charged and what his personal views on gay marriage are now.
Three district attorneys running for attorney general — two Democrats and a Republican — said they would not issue charges against clerks and their area. A Democratic state representative running to succeed Van Hollen also criticized the idea of issuing charges.
"You do have many people in Wisconsin basically taking the law into their own hands and there can be legal repercussions for that," Van Hollen said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "So, depending on who believes they're married under the law and who doesn't believe they're married under the law may cause them to get themselves in some legal problems that I think are going to take years for them and the courts to work out."
The Republican attorney general said he did not believe same-sex couples could be prosecuted but that county clerks risked charges.
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County clerks can be jailed for up to nine months and fined up to $10,000 for issuing marriage licenses that aren't allowed under state law. The same section of the statutes also provides penalties for judges, ministers and others who officiate over a "fictitious marriage," but Van Hollen did not address whether they could be charged.
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United States District Judge Barbara Crabb last week declared that Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the law. She has not yet entered an injunction instructing public officials what to do about her finding.
Judge Crabb, could you please find this rat f%$# in contempt?
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