Kim Davis is going to jail, which is a good thing for everyone. It's good for Davis, because she was caught between her "sincerely held belief" that same-gender couples could not be married and her job in Kentucky where she was required to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples on account of the recent change in the nation's laws. It's also good for gay couples who wish to be married and yet had to endure immense humiliation by someone whose salary they help to pay.
While the best solution would have been for her to quit once she understood herself to be no longer capable of fulfilling her duties, her jail sentence does, at least, remove her from blocking the rights of her fellow citizens to marriage and all of its privileges and responsibilities.
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