The Rude Pundit - If You Support the County Clerk in Kentucky, You Support Shariah Law
The Rude Pundit is trying to get his head around the thinking of County Clerk Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky. See, he can't imagine a situation where he's asked to do something lawful for his job, for the people who, you know, pay him, and he doesn't do it. Now, between the asking and the doing, there might be a hell of a rigamarole. For instance, recently at this here professorin' gig, some top-down changes to curriculum were instituted. After a protracted battle, where the Rude Pundit spoke out publicly against things, where he joined protests and signed mighty petitions of many signatures, his side lost.
It didn't even occur to him to declare, "I will not teach because this curriculum violates my deeply-held pedagogical beliefs." No, his options would be to either quit or do his job and live to fight another day. And since, at the end of the current day, no children were being bombed or rivers being polluted, he went to work like usual. Because that's what you do. Because that's the choice you face. If you have a job, you do the job. If you don't want to do the job, leave the job.
But what he can't even begin to comprehend is the conviction that if he does a job that violates his beliefs, an invisible sky wizard will angrily condemn him to an eternity of fire and demon rape. To take that further, it's not in his realm of thinking to understand that one might think that it's one's job to keep the angry sky wizard, fire, and raping demons away from others.
That's exactly where we are with on-her-fourth-marriage Kim Davis and the other county clerks in Kentucky who are refusing to issue any marriage licenses because they don't want to allow same sex couples to marry. The twisted reasoning in not issuing licenses to opposite sex couples is so the clerks don't appear to be prejudiced against gay couples. Ahh, they're subtle, these Christian soldiers.
Davis wasn't so subtle with the all-male and all-female couples who showed up today to get their perfectly legal marriage licenses. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court said, "Shut the fuck up and do your goddamned job" to Davis. Then a federal court said, "What Kagan said, and start now." Davis remained totally, almost admirably, but definitely dumbly defiant.
When one unlucky groom asked under whose authority she was acting out, Davis proclaimed, "Under God's authority." The next question should have been "Does God sign your motherfucking paycheck?" followed by "No? Then get a job where he does."
Instead, Davis faced down the angry group and announced, "I'm willing to face my consequences and you all will face your consequences when it comes time for judgment." That's adorable, Davis pretending as if she wasn't judging them already. She'll get more time to make her holy case when she appears Thursday before a U.S. district judge for a possible contempt citation and fine (no one's asking her to be put in jail. Let's not make this nutzoid evangelical more of a martyr to the Jesus fellaters bobbing on the bearded knob for her cause).
If you don't get it, let's make it clear: This is an attempt to enact fundamentalist Christianity as law. It is an attempt to make religious doctrine take the place of secular legal decisions. It is, in theory and operation, no different than the Shariah law that cowardly conservatives fear will overtake the nation, with Muslim Obama as chief mullah or some such shit. You can say you prefer your flavor, but it's still motherfuckin' ice cream. (Note: The Rude Pundit really wants some ice cream.)
Oh, we'll have the usual parade of suspects, of craven politicians leaping to Davis's defense, of talk radio dogs woofing away to their anus-sniffing audience. You know, though, the Rude Pundit may not understand the desire to avoid the stink eye of God, but he knows where inspiration for such fuckery comes from.
The Republican Party is made up of fundamentalists of one type or another now. If your only stance on any issue is "My way or not at all," if you're going to threaten to shut down the working of the government because you don't like Planned Parenthood or you need answers on Benghazi or you need to represent for your state's dead president, then why wouldn't someone think it's fine to stop the gears of local government to please their angry gods.
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Sexist overtones, dating back to at least Shakespeare. I prefer the gender-neutral 'scalawag.' 
This is an attempt to enact fundamentalist Christianity as law. It is an attempt to make religious doctrine take the place of secular legal decisions. It is, in theory and operation, no different than the Shariah law that cowardly conservatives fear will overtake the nation, with Muslim Obama as chief mullah or some such shit.
I find scripture but mainly religious metaphors interesting, particularly sacrifices which feels like a sociopath wrote that part in whatever books that have it well because say for instance a group of people committed a crime but they won't wrong parties to find out about but there may be someone who 'knows too much' so he's "sacrificed". Outside what does God need for fuel occasional bodies here or there or the associations with that but things like selling your soul as making agreements with the wrong sorts of crowd rather than maintaining your principles. Bernie Sanders could have potentially "sold his soul" to you know, Wall Street.
I look things from both rational and quadruple vision ways but not completely quadruple to a given event or completely rational for something unknown unknown unlike known knowns unknown knowns or something like that. Not taking things seriously but searching like myths, certain things would get passed down over time and variations like 'telephone' but things that are specifically like skywizards or vampires, werewolves trace from something from a long time ago that people with understanding and the perceptions to things they saw and their rational explations or thoughts related like possibly werewolves or vampires could trace from Neanderthals living in caves and the outside world saw those, there was a photo of a neanderthal female skull with huge rock inside her mouth suggesting that is seen as a way to combat the cave people whenever they appeared and they would paint or draw images inside the caves of how they saw things based on their perspectives & understanding.
The only thing I believe in for sure on Abrahamic religions is possibly Moses, Jesus Muhammad, and/or Joseph Smith may have had Temporal lobe epilepsy
Temporal lobe epilepsy has been suggested as a physical explanation for the revelatory experiences of prominent religious figures such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Saint Paul, and Joseph Smith. These experiences are described as complex interactions with their visions, but lacking the stereotypy, amnestic periods, and automatisms or generalized motor events, which are characteristic of TLE. Psychiatric conditions with psychotic spectrum symptoms are a more plausible physical explanation of these experiences.[60] Pope Pius IX's doctrine of the immaculate conception is thought to have been influenced by his forensically diagnosed partial epilepsy.[61] It has also been suggested that the visions of Joan of Arc were probably an expression of partial epilepsy.[62]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy
Just from God's law or writing laws which are man made either way, particularly with all the variations but saw as unnecessary or always saw a lot of irony in that because based their own scriptures he's already aware and whatever case comes up that will appear on his docket so seemed strange to me because I thought he already had that part covered.
I think another thread with the recent John Oliver focus on Televangelists and that they are tax-exempt that I made a comment that Kevin Trudeau was selling the wrong snake oil (incarcerated right now) so he should have got on that circuit and write books tilted "What God doesn't want you to know".
Marriage licenses is the easy stuff...they didn't want to just jump in and not accept property tax money from people on their shit list. Can you imagine the legal tangle that would ensue if that were to happen? your property would be sold by the time it was all straightened out. 
Perfect!
Love you, dude. 
