The GOP’s ludicrous Kim Davis primary: How raging homophobia took the Republican campaign by storm

[DonViejo]

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has brought the worst out of the GOP — with one major exception

BOB CESCA

If someone were to hold a gun to my head and force me to vote in the Republican primary, I’d first attempt to desperately wrestle the gun away. But, short of that, I’d probably go ahead and vote for Lindsey Graham.

I hasten to underscore that I vigorously disagree with Graham on a wide range of issues, especially his interventionist posture on Iraq and the broader Middle East. Although from what I’ve witnessed, especially throughout the Republican nominating process, Graham has comported himself at least as a man of integrity. Not for nothing, but he appears on the surface to be a nice enough guy — at least compared with his GOP colleagues who mostly drive one to violent profanity-strewn outbursts.

Let’s talk about the integrity thing specifically.

This week’s big story is the saga of a Rowan County, KY, clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed indefinitely Thursday by U.S. District Judge David Bunning for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in compliance with an earlier court order. Davis will remain in federal custody until she agrees to issue the appropriate licenses. Last month, meanwhile, a Texas clerk named Katie Lang was hit with a court settlement to the tune of $44,000 in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue a license for a gay couple. But it clearly wasn’t punitive enough to scare Davis who’s clearly acting in contempt of Judge Bunning’s order.

Davis believes that by issuing the licenses she’ll be condemned to Hell. Of course her perceived biblical trespass is ridiculously cherrypicked, as it always is. Homophobes like Davis seem to only zero-in on Leviticus and a few letters written by the apostle Paul. (Regarding the latter, and briefly put, Paul was merely recruiting pagan gentiles to the ascetic Christian lifestyle. Paganism often included sex acts in temple rituals, so naturally converts would have to reject those old forms of worship. Paul, by the way, in Romans, also expressly forbid debating, boasting, deception, being unmerciful and wine-drinking. That’d be a quintuple Hell-worthy condemnation for John Boehner. It’s also worth noting that the terms “homosexuality” and “same-sex marriage” were anachronistic in the ancient world, making it impossible for the Bible to explicitly condemn either.)

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[randys1]

1. One republican barely, sort of, does the right thing out of 60 million of them and

it is national news.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Racism? Check! Xenophobia? Check! Demagoguery? Check? Misogyny? Check! Homophobia? Check! The list goes on.

America, this is your brain, and your secular nation, on religion! As intelligent as a fried egg.

The Founders knew what they were doing.

[NutmegYankee]

3. One of the problems with apostle Paul is that his letters were private letters to people.

He didn't intend for them to read by everybody and they are incredibly inconsistent, changing based on the circumstances of who he is writing. While he had problems with wine consumption in some letters, he also directed Timothy to drink wine because the water made him sick.

He has to be viewed as a great organizer. Sadly people seem to follow his views as though they are gospel.

[Gothmog]

4. This will be fun to watch-the Gop will be all out trying to be the most homophobic