Kim Davis’ 15 minutes have stretched to 15 weeks. Just after the Supreme Court affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry, Davis affirmed the right of county clerks to decide who can get married. She refused to serve gay couples seeking marriage licenses, and then when that turned out to be illegal, refused to serve any couples that wanted to get married. Davis was making a federal judge crazy so he threw her in jail. When that put the jail on the list of tourist attractions in Kentucky and the judge on the list of people Kim Davis’ fans harass, the judge let Kim inspire people from home. She met with the Pope to explain what real religious persecution looks like. Kim has taken the law into her own hands in order to encourage Christians to refuse service to others.
Some have suggested that if Davis does not want to do her job she should consider other employment, but why should she have to change jobs just because she does not want to do the job she agreed to do? Perhaps her refusal to serve those she promised to serve is unreasonable, but where has being reasonable ever gotten us?
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