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Archae

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Thu Sep 10, 2015, 10:49 AM Sep 2015

Kim Davis' attorney is just another "Liar for Jayzus..."

And he goes on the program of the theocratic racist Tony Perkins.

Kim Davis Attorney: Marriage Equality Will Bar All Christians From Public Office

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 9/10/2015 10:41 am

Mat Staver, the head of Liberty Counsel and the attorney representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in her effort to bar her office from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, claimed yesterday that if Davis doesn’t get her way then Christians will be effectively barred from holding all public offices. Interviewing Staver on his “Washington Watch” program, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that he was “very disappointed” in Republicans who have suggested that Davis resign from her position if she is unwilling to perform a major part of her job. “That would establish a reverse religious test where if you hold an orthodox religious view of marriage, you would be barred from holding public office,” Perkins said. Staver agreed with Perkins, noting that Davis “believes God called her” to run for clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky. “But if what we do is follow the advice of some of these Republican candidates that say she needs to resign, well what does that mean?” he asked. “That means that Kim Davis and anyone else who is an elected official … that means you have to check your faith at the ballot box. And once you’re elected, you have to change your faith, put it aside, transgress it, you cannot have your conscience accommodated. ‘No more Christians need to run for office,’ that’s essentially the message, and if you’re in office you need to resign your post immediately. Now what kind of America is that? It’s certainly not the America that the Founders envisioned and I don’t think it’s the kind of America that most people want.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kim-davis-attorney-marriage-equality-will-bar-all-christians-public-office#sthash.tehLnzpb.dpuf

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Kim Davis' attorney is just another "Liar for Jayzus..." (Original Post) Archae Sep 2015 OP
What the serious fuck is wrong with these people? Initech Sep 2015 #1

Initech

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1. What the serious fuck is wrong with these people?
Thu Sep 10, 2015, 11:08 AM
Sep 2015

I'm sure that if Jesus were here, he'd tell Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee "You're not helping".

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