The Westboro Baptist Street Theater Troupe has inserted itself into the Kentucky gay marriage license controversy, and they are joining with the gay left in attacking the personal life of the clerk who refused to issue gay marriage licenses; attacking her for her past sexual and marital histories.
This is even better than when the WBSTT went to Iraq to support Saddam Hussein.
Kim Davis could have been a West Baptist zealot and denied a marriage license for a variety of judgmental reasons she found tied to the “true” meaning of God’s word.
Divorce is still a heavy hitting calamity among some sects, so, yes, she could have been one of those people, as well.
The issue is between her duty to serve the law and her duty to her religious belief system. If there is an insurmountable conflict for her, she would have to surrender her government duty and get a job not baking gay wedding cakes. That is until the gayposse catches up with her and some bureaucrat fines her a bazillion dollars by usefully interpreting the present state of political correctness.
Or two gay dudes from Ohio travel all the way to the ass end of Kentucky with a gang of media in tow to make a big deal about how they couldn’t get a marriage license from her; because it had to be *this particular* county, don’tcha know.
Then, they updated their A4A profiles to “married but open, we play separately and together.”
If Davis’s main argument, “when I accepted this job as a county clerk, I took an oath to serve the people of Kentucky — but now the federal courts have forced a top-down redefinition of Marriage that Kentuckians would never have supported by popular referendum,” THEN the digging into her past history would’ve been totally inappropriate.
But from what I can see, DAVIS HERSELF chose to make this about “God’s Law” rather than “local autonomy”; and for that matter, she chose to get remarried without any apparent thought as to whether she was putting a Christian clerk into a difficult bind by requesting a license for her sinful arrangement; in short, Davis herself chose to be a “cafeteria Christian” and to force others into the same condition, but is now insisting that she can’t possibly be one.
So it looks to me as though she fully opened herself up to the accusations of selective thinking and hypocrisy — and we should be prepared to admit that, even if we’re inclined to support her with regards to the “top-down federal tyranny” aspect.
Oops… “If Davis’s main argument WERE “such-and-such…”
Incidentally, my impression is that Jesus’s words about divorce were mainly directed against the injustice of “unilateral divorce” for trivial reasons — i.e., when a husband exercised his legal right to divorce his wife without her consent, just because he was bored with her, or whatever.
Davis’s divorce, from what I understand, involved allegations of adultery, so even Jesus might’ve said “that’s not the situation I was talking about.”
Could the people in the Westboro Baptist Church take an airplane flight to one of their protests and have it crash during a thunderstorm?
Personally, I could also care less if a clerk did exactly that, because there are other clerks and other counties.
The entertaining part is watching the gay liberals twist themselves into pretzels demanding that everyone else follow the law when there are decades of examples of them screaming that people should never have to follow laws with which they disagree and that others must be forced to give in and accomodate.
“But I didn’t mean YOU had rights and that I had to respect them! It was supposed to be just me. ME!”
On Fox News, I just viewed Huckabee grandstanding in front of the courthouse after the release of Davis. Thank goodness, he will never be President. It reminded me of George Wallace in 1963. Huckabee will be seen as a huckster one day.
Let’s hope that day is soon; he’s running on 14:54 of fame.