As everyone knows, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was jailed for contempt, and was eventually released on the condition that she not interfere with the issuance of licenses by others. She has apparently not done so, remains free, same-sex couples are now getting married in Rowan County, Kentucky, and presidential contestant Mike Huckabee self-destructed by gaudily associating himself with her.
The system worked, albeit clunkily, and all is well. Right?
Not according to Matt Barber, who apparently thinks there is still some money to be mulcted out of idiots.
“The beauty of this is that when people do stand up like Kim Davis did,” Miller added, “the feds almost always back down. That’s effectively what this judge did and it kind of reminded me of what happened at the Bundy ranch in Nevada. Cliven Bundy, he decided, right or wrong, he stood up to it with a lot of other people and the feds backed down.”
Barber likewise proclaimed that Davis had forced the government to back down, claiming that Judge David Bunning “didn’t just walk back his contempt of court ruling, he ran it back.”
“He let her out of jail because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. comparison,” Barber claimed, “because of the Rosa Parks comparison … As with Rosa Parks, she shook a nation; Kim Davis has shaken a nation and it’s amazing what one person again, who will stand firm on their principle and refuse to violate their conscience, what they can accomplish.”
Well … who knows? Americans in general, and evangelicals in particular, rarely pay much attention to public matters and have short memories, so maybe there is a large group of people out there who imagine Kim Davis triumphed. Or maybe the nutjob right is collapsing as Americans wake up to how dishonest and nihilistic they actually are, and Matt Barber is scratching in the spoil piles for the odd bit of overlooked pocket change.