Kim Davis, the clerk of a dinky county in Kentucky, violates federal law–sort of but not really, since there isn’t a federal marriage law–by refusing to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, resulting in some people having to wait a few weeks to get married…she goes to jail for five days.
And pretty much the entire country knows who Kim Davis is.
Ross Mirkarimi, the SHERIFF in San Francisco, violates federal law by refusing to cooperate with immigration authorities, resulting in the death of Kate Steinle…he goes to jail for no days.
And pretty much no one knows who he is.
Kim Davis, according to those who support same-sex marriage, is a “bigot” for believing that marriage is only between two people of opposite sexes as defined by her God–and also in the dictionary–until recently. These same people think Davis is a terrible person and a hypocrite since she’s a believer in God (or has been for the past four years) while having been married four times to three different men and while having children out of wedlock.
The national media is all over Davis like white on rice.
Ross Mirkarimi was charged in 2012 with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness. He served one day in jail and accepted a plea deal for false imprisonment. Mirkarimi’s driver’s license was suspended in February of this year because he didn’t report a traffic accident that occurred in October, 2014. Both drivers are required under California state law to file a damage report if a collision results in an injury or the damage exceeds $750. The only one to file a report was the other driver. As of last month, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Mirkarimi still had neither filed the required accident report nor provided proof of insurance as required under law, state records show. He had also not paid the $55 fee to regain his full driving privileges, the records show.”
The national media is um, well, ya know…*crickets*.
It seems our judicial system and the media work just fine when a social issue is at stake, but not when the issue is public safety.
The anti-marriage license clerk gets jailed. I say “anti-marriage” because Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses, not just those for same-sex applicants.
The SHERIFF gets a sternly worded statement from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who said at The Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday:
“It is counterproductive to public safety to have this level of resistance to working with our immigration enforcement personnel.”
It’s counterproductive. Not “it’s illegal.” Not “it’s dangerous.” It’s just “counterproductive.”
