People are freaking weird.
Take the case of the spectacle going on in Rowan County, Kentucky (pop. 23,333), right now with the gay and lesbian couples who have wanted to get married but the mean old County Clerk has repeatedly refused to issue them marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs. I’m finally reading about the story after I dismissed some earlier headlines when it came up.
Good golly, what a mad, mad, mad, mad bunch of weirdos there are in this mess. Now the offended parties want the mean old Christian lady to be held in contempt for disobeying the Supreme Court’s decision a couple of months ago.
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky who has invoked “God’s authority” and is defying the U.S. Supreme Court by refusing to license same-sex marriage has been summoned along with her entire staff to explain to a federal judge why she should not face stiff fines or jail time.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning moved swiftly Tuesday after a lesbian couple asked him to find Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in contempt. Davis told several couples and a crowd of supporters and protesters that her religious beliefs prevent her from sanctioning gay marriage, and then retreated again, closing her office door and blinds to the raucous scene outside.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday night, leaving Davis no legal ground for her continued refusal Tuesday morning. Lawyers for the two same-sex couples who originally sued her asked the judge Tuesday to find her in contempt, but punish her with only financial penalties, not jail time.
Those lawyers representing the gay couples are from the Kentucky ACLU.
Kim Davis ran twice and won both times on the Democratic ticket to get the seat she currently holds. The Democratic Party probably wants to revoke her blue badge of sensitivity by now. Davis says that she’s gotten death threats and people telling her they want to burn down her house. The whole thing has gotten a little crazy.
There was a festival atmosphere outside the Rowan County courthouse Tuesday. More than 100 protesters — some supporting Davis, others opposing her — sang and shouted slogans at one another from across the entryway. Sheriff’s deputies watched, but there were no arrests.
“This is a circus. I don’t think anybody should have to go through this just to get a piece of paper saying you’re married,” said David Moore, one of the men who came seeking a marriage license. “I shouldn’t have to remember this as the story of how I got married.”
Moore said Tuesday was the third time he had unsuccessfully asked Davis for a marriage license.
“I feel like she’s maliciously and intentionally harming people at this point,” Moore said.
Malicious and harmful. He makes Kim Davis out to be evil incarnate. But who started this circus?
Oh, yeah. David Moore and the rest of the folks who have no understanding of Christian beliefs started it, just as they intended. Yet he’s the one complaining about a circus. He’s only going to “remember this as the story” of how he got married because he brought it on himself, his groombride/spouse/what have you, and everyone else.
Going back to the first article I cited, this is what apparently happened later:
Davis rejected David Moore and David Ermold’s license request for a fourth time, and then told them to leave.
“We’re not leaving until we have a license,” Ermold said as reporters and cameras surrounded them.
“Then you’re going to have a long day,” Davis told him, and then retreated into her inner office.
From the back of the room, Davis’ supporters said: “Praise the Lord! … Stand your ground.”
Other activists shouted that Davis is a bigot and told her: “Do your job.”
The sheriff then moved everyone out to the courthouse lawn, where James Yates and Will Smith Jr., who were denied a license for a fifth time, left red-eyed and shaking.
“It’s just too hard right now,” Yates said, choking back tears and holding hands as they rushed to their car.
Oh, the drama. The phony, manufactured drama.
Ermold and Moore, together for 17 years, cried and swayed as walked out to chants from the clerk’s supporters.
“I feel sad, I feel devastated,” Ermold said. “I feel like I’ve been humiliated on such a national level, I can’t even comprehend it.”
Humiliated. On a national level. Spare us. They couldn’t let it go, couldn’t bother to look for another clerk, so this was the result.
I will say that I’m not entirely committed to Team Davis. She seems like a bit of an odd duck to me–just a bit. However, I respect her for standing up for her beliefs, even with people screaming at her, crying crocodile tears in her office, threatening her life, siccing the camera-and-microphone posse on her, etc. The methods that the gaystapo uses to garner public sympathy and stir up hatred against those who rebel against them is atrocious. Progressives behave like they all want to win Academy awards, the way they carry on and get angry and weepy in front of reporters when others won’t comply with their every request. Yes, the privilege of marriage has been granted to the homosexual community nationwide now, but this situation could have been handled in a less ostentatious fashion.
Rowan County is surrounded by seven other counties. The gay couples, the ACLU, the national media, and progheads everywhere would rather pick on this woman instead of getting their marriage licenses from the clerk’s office of nearby Fleming County, Lewis County, Carter County, Elliott County, Morgan County, Bath County, or Menifee County. All these antics show is that this is all about attention for them, for some bogus demand for justice and equality.
I saw a lot of people in the comment sections complaining that Ms. Davis should essentially be thrown into a fiery pit if she won’t do her job. But I doubt she envisioned having to issue marriage licenses to gay couples when she took the job. It’s curious that Davis stopped issuing licenses to all couples–not just gay couples–when the Supreme Court made its decision yet same-sex couples are the ones who are raising the holy hell over it.
Like the rainbow couples who demanded the cakes or photos or pizzas from one particular supplier who couldn’t supply what they wanted, the people in this case will go nowhere else to get what they want until after they punish those who denied them. Thanks to the Supreme Court, the respect-for-me-but-not-for-ye people now have the law at their disposal. But really, laws that punish people for exercising their constitutional rights should be disposed into an environmentally-sound compost heap.
Progressives say that conservatives declared a war on women over absurd matters such as free birth control. But none of them have a problem declaring a war on a woman over the matter of her faith.
Weirdos.
