County Clerk Kim Davis of Kentucky is in charge of her county’s marriage licenses. She’s recently denied licenses to same-sex marriage couples and now she’s denying marriage licenses to ALL couples so she won’t “discriminate.” Two courts have ruled against her and the Supreme Court refuses to intervene.
Davis is an Apostolic Christian and has a sincere religious objection to same-sex marriage. Fine – this is America. But if performing her legal duties – for which she is being paid – goes against her beliefs, obviously she has to leave the job. Some Christians believe that they have a direct pipeline to God and He told them the REAL definition of marriage. And this somehow gives them the freedom to break the law and report to a “higher” authority.
Unfortunately for her, America is a nation of laws and not like some Mid-Eastern country that lets Allah permeate every level of government.
I’m really not interested in Kim’s definition of marriage. I don’t care if her information came from God or Kentucky moonshine. American law is very clear on the subject: a marriage is between two, consenting adults. Period. Don’t like it? Tough shit. RESIGN!
Freedom of religion includes freedom FROM religion. Deal with it on your own time.
County clerk won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses: https://www.google.com/
(BTW – does anyone really believe Kim Davis is a solitary, under-paid public servant who’s being persecuted for her personal religious beliefs? That’s hilarious! You don’t go through two court cases and the Supreme Court without very expensive lawyers and strategy consultants.
Kim is just the public face in front of extreme, Christian right-wing groups who are trying to deny gay rights in America. They’ll be as successful as they have been in overturning Roe vs. Wade.)