Kim Davis, Pious Yahoo and, unfortunately, still the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, continues to refuse to issue marriage licenses, though she lost her appeal to the Supreme Court yesterday.
Invoking “God’s authority” in a testy exchange with same-sex partners, a county clerk has again refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples – this time in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against her.
On Tuesday morning, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ office denied the licenses to several couples. At first, Davis was in her office with the door closed and blinds drawn, and her staff said she wouldn’t be available. But Davis emerged a few minutes later, telling the couples and the activists gathered there that her office is continuing to deny the licenses “under God’s authority.”
Well.
Ignorant characters like Davis enjoy justifying their ill behavior with brave declarations like, “I don’t leave my faith at home when I go to work,” et cetera, et cetera. The fact is that the state has no religion — and neither may Davis during the hours that she toils as its agent. She is wrong, and wildly and embarrassingly so.
There is a bright side to this unseemly debacle: Nobody with two eyeballs connected to a functioning mind can fail to see how vicious and inherently incompatible with democratic self-government Christianity actually is when people are so foolish that they take it seriously.