Kim Davis, the clerk of court for Rowan County, Kentucky, has been imprisoned by a federal judge for refusing to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision decreeing national, public endorsement of gay marriage. So, here's the country we now inhabit -- nobody was ever suing, penalizing, or imprisoning gays for getting married, yet people are now being sued, penalized, and imprisoned merely for declining to endorse gay marriage. Actual civil rights such as life, liberty, and property are being sacrificed so that a small percentage of the population can feel good about itself. Anyone proud of this turn of events is a sick son of a bitch.
Gays are not persecuted in this country. People such as Kim Davis are, and she is the only one who has a right to feel proud here. She has the strength to bear the consequences of obeying her conscience. She knows full well that the Supreme Court does NOT have the final word on the supreme law, either America's or God's, and she is willing to act accordingly. America was liberated from Great Britain and founded by people such as this; it's an indictment of the quality of men America now produces that a woman shows them what courage looks like.
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I keep hearing people chastise Kim Davis for not upholding the law. It is the Supreme Court that has not upheld the law, and the members of the Court are the ones who should be in leg irons. That kind of realization, though, requires active reflection and responsibility rather than slothful obedience. If the "law" is whatever the Supreme Court says it is, then there is no law. People worthy of calling themselves Americans can think for themselves and identify when the government has gone rogue. But these people are the remnant; the meek majority prefer slavery because it removes the terrible burden of responsibility.
