KIM DAVIS OF ROWAN COUNTY (KY) NEEDS A NEW JOB AND A WHIPPING

On Thursday, county clerk Kim Davis refused a court order to resume issuing marriage licenses to qualified applicants. Two months ago, rather than allowing gays in her territory to marry, she stopped issuing any marriage licenses. Because, of course, as a government employee, she insists that she need not obey any laws that she doesn't like.
Morehead is the Rome of the lesser Appalachians.
The law cannot protect you there, god rules.
People of faith make all the decisions.
Particularly, one type of faith.
Harsh and judgmental.
Clenched of jaw.
X-tian.


SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

A judge ordered her to resume.
She does not intend to do so.

It should be obvious that every one's religious freedom is limited by everyone else's religious freedom. Which means that the moment one person's expression of religion impacts on someone else's ability to exercise their own equivalent freedom, even if they choose to have no religious peculiarities whatsoever, violence and burning "heretics" at the stake become attractive responses.

Burning heretics at the stake -- such as members of several barbaric Christian cults -- has a fine history, which goes back all the way to the Romans. It's a traditional Christian practice.

I admire tradition.


Kim Davis says her Christian faith bars her from authorizing same-sex marriages. She need not worry; she does not have authority; she merely has the task of issuing licenses. Drudgework, more or less.
Her employer decided to expand the criteria required for those licenses.
Christian faith does not enter into it. We are not a clerical dictatorship.
When we become one, bloodshed may follow.

Along with burning. If not the nimbly fleeing heretics, their buildings.
Church buildings are all very clearly marked.
And stationary.

In a country with more firearms in private hands than there are people to handle those weapons, riding roughshod over someone else's rights is perhaps a foolhardy thing to do; we have a history of reacting badly.

And at this point, there are far more people who think that Kentucky is the devil's arsehole than people actually living in Kentucky. Rowan County may, in fact, be the very epicentre of daemonic bung.

Davis is a member of an "Apostolic Christian" church.
If that church is ordering members employed by the public to disobey the law, they should be immediately disqualified from all such jobs.

Furthermore, all Apostolic Christian Churches must be investigated to ascertain whether any others are hotbeds of law-breaking.
Or in any way encourage criminal behaviour.

Damned frock-coated thugs.



Oh heck, I might as well admit it. Christianity in many of its American forms makes my skin crawl, fundamentalist Christianity in particular is thoroughly nauseating, I despise most of the adherents, and there are only TWO things in Kentucky worth a tinkers curse, namely liquor and tobacco.

I do not respect anyone else's religion if it deviates from my personal beliefs. I respect their right to be wrong, however, as long as their boneheadedness has no impact on anyone else.




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