When state authorities released Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis from jail in September, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee received her and her overalls-wearing husband on a platform erected right outside the detention center. Davis, looking every bit the Appalachian Pentecostal that she is, took the stage to the propulsive rock beat of the 1982 chart-topper “Eye of the Tiger.”
After a half-minute of sobbing, Davis, who had spent the previous five days in jail for defying a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, composed herself and addressed the crowd. “I just want to give God the glory,” she said. “His people have rallied, and you are a strong people!”
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