Rolling Stone: Conservative Heads Explode Over Kentucky's Bigoted County Clerk

[Miles Archer]

Conservative Heads Explode Over Kentucky's Bigoted County Clerk



http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/conservative-heads-explode-over-kentuckys-bigoted-county-clerk-20150903

Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, has been dominating the news cycle all week with her stalwart refusal to do her job. Davis, who objects to same-sex marriage, has not been allowing her office to issue licenses to same-sex couples, claiming her personal religious belief about other people's relationships should trump the law of the land. Even though the Supreme Court has rejected her argument, Davis remains defiant, and on Thursday she was jailed for her actions.

This puts the Republican presidential candidates – all one billion of them – in a sticky situation. On the one hand, it's unwise to be seen supporting someone who is clearly destined to be a historical villain – the George Wallace of the gay civil rights era. On the other hand, you need those evangelical voters who don't know, or don't care, that future generations will see them as irredeemable bigots. Here are some of the ways conservatives are handling the situation, ranked roughly from most irrational to least.

Mike Huckabee, who is running more for the evangelical speaker circuit than for president, got a headful of steam, apparently believing it's better to destroy the rule of law than let gay couples legally marry. "When people of conviction fight for what's right they often pay a price, but if they don't and we surrender, we will pay a far greater price for bowing to the false God of judicial supremacy," he railed, claiming that the Supreme Court has no authority at all over these matters. "Government is not God. No man – and certainly no unelected lawyer – has the right to redefine the laws of nature or of nature's God."

Since God isn't exactly coming off his cloud telling us what to do here, I guess we'll just have to take Huckabee's word on it.

[RKP5637]

1. Most religious people I've known/seen set themselves up on huge ego trips telling us mere mortals

what we are supposed to believe/think/do, well, because, they often feel that have a direct pipeline to their Almighty, whomever/whatever that might be.

And because often zealots have nothing else in life, well, except those charlatans that roll in $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s from the flock. Oh, tax free.