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The attorney who represents Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said on "Fox and Friends Weekend" this morning that his client has no regrets about standing up for her religious beliefs.
Mat Staver said that Davis is very content despite having been jailed for four days, telling him "all is well" during their meeting.
"She is content where she is. She has no regrets. And one thing she will not do is she will not violate her conscience," Staver stated.
"Frankly, Kim is someone like Martin Luther King, Jr. in the sense that he was willing to pay the consequences for his decision and his conscience," Staver said. "And, in that respect, Kim is also in that long line of individuals who are willing to pay the consequence for a conscious decision regarding their conscience and their religious decisions."
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)MLK, Jr. stood for INCLUSION, for NON-DISCRIMINATION, for INTEGRATION, for equal treatment of
people under the law regardless of their race or color.
This woman just wants to throw her weight around as an agent of government to PREVENT
people from exercising their civil rights.
If anybody could get him to shut up long enough, I'm sure the point could be made to his face.
I watched that Chris Hayes interview of him Friday night--and the guy is insufferable. Domineering,
rude asshole.
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/09/chris-hayes-mat-staver-kim-davis/
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Journeyman
(15,042 posts)from whom Ghandi and Martin Luther King drew their inspiration for their tactic of civil resistance.
And were Staver better versed in Thoreau's precepts, he'd recognize that despite her willingness to pay the consequences for her conscience, to affect change Ms Davis will need to convince enough people to join with her that they can effectively clog the machinery of governance, and thereby influence the larger society by forcing it to recognize their demands.
As Ms Davis has little hope or expectation of gaining such widespread support, she remains what she was when she entered her cell last week -- a low level functionary who refuses to follow the directives of her employer. Nothing more.