Do you agree with Kimberly Davis being sent to jail?

I don't see any point in putting her in jail. She's not a danger to society. But she should lose her job. She's an elected official, but there has to be some way to recall or impeach a clerk like her if she refuses to do the job she promised to do!

Davis CHOSE to go to jail. It made her a cause celebre. It will have no effect on gay marriage but it will focus media attention on certain candidates, certain events, and it could make Davis herself a lot of money.

She was sent to jail for contempt of court. The judge had the option of fining her instead but determined (correctly, IMHO) that she would just collect donations, pay the fine, and continue to do what she'd been doing in the first place.

And being an elected official, she can't just be "fired" in the conventional sense. And she refused to resign.

So yes, under those circumstances, I think jail was appropriate because nothing else would have worked.

Yes, of course, she chose to ignore a court order to do her job and committed contempt of court. I'm sure it was explained to her that this is not a theocracy and that her religious beliefs do not trump federal law. She chose to set that fact aside, so she chose the route of going to jail. Her choice, her crime. If she keeps this nonsense up, invalidating a marriage form she didn't like, as was reported today, she's going right back in the slammer. You can't fix stupid.

That is what happens when you are in contempt of court for defying a judge's order.

The person so jailed is said to hold the keys to their own cell because all they need do to be released is comply with the judge's order.

No. No different from all the clerks around the nation who issued licenses to gays before it was legal. Why weren't they arrested? Besides, Davis was still abiding by her oath of office and the Kentucky Constitution.

She is an elected official, elected to do a certain job and to serve the people who elected her. She refuses to do her job, to obey the law, she should resign or lose her job.

As for jail, she was sent to jail for contempt of court. The judge felt it was the right thing to do.

She got jail for contempt of court ... if she continues she should get the same consequences as every body else. She's a bible babbling attention seeker ... !

She was in contempt of court. You can get that for cussing at a judge. She wasn't thrown in jail because of her beliefs.

No, they could've told someone else to sign the paper work, but they instead chose to put her in prison when she did nothing wrong. There is no law in Kentucky saying that you have to sign the papers for a marriage license.

No I don't. People should not be forced to act against their religion.