Members of the infamously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) arrived in Morehead, Kentucky today to picket the Rowan County courthouse, workplace of Kim Davis, the county clerk and “religious liberty” martyr who rose to fame by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples citing “God’s authority.”
Davis’s religious right credentials are solid. Her stand for “religious liberty” has resulted in the support of four presidential hopefuls—Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, and Rand Paul—a visit with the Pope, and comparisons to Rosa Parks. Plenty of others opposed Davis, of course, both because of her anti-gay stance and because of her refusal to do the job she took an oath to do. No one, though, has criticized her for being both insufficiently anti-gay and disrespecting the law.
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