Kim Davis been getting a LOT of the attention, but she’ not the only county clerk in Kentucky who is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Yesterday it was ruled that Kim does have to issue licenses (although she just refused a couple a THIRD time) and is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now County Clerk Casey Davis (who says his only relationship to Kim Davis is that she’s his sister in Christ) has also refused to allow same-sex couples to marry. Casey Davis actually sat down with Gov. Steve Beshear, who told him he HAD TO, yet he still refuses. A furious Davis told a local Kentucky radio host this week:
“Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected. If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do. They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die for my kids and your kids can keep it.”
Davis also took the Governor to the woodshed;
“I think that’s a travesty to think that just because he don’t see it this way or his opinion is to let same-sex marriage go and it’s all right that us as Christians, we as Christians just don’t have rights anymore? That’s wrong sir. That’s not right.
“It’s a war on Christianity. There is a travesty taking place with that Supreme Court ruling was completely unconstitutional, completely unconstitutional. They have no right to tell us, the state of Kentucky, that our law that was voted with what was 70 percent of the people that it was wrong, they had no right.”
If you listen to the clip, you’ll hear Davis suggest that he believes the constitution of Kentucky has power over the constitution of the United States. And it seems no one is telling him any different. I’m here to tell you. WRONG! The portion quoted starts at about the 3:30 mark. Listen. And gag. Not the good kind, either.
(via The New Civil Rights Movement)
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