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Pope Francis met secretly in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her lawyer said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. Francis gave her rosaries and told her to stay strong, the lawyer said.
Ms. Davis and her husband, Joe, were sneaked into the Vatican Embassy by car on Thursday afternoon, according to Ms. Daviss lawyer, Mathew D. Staver. The couple met for about 15 minutes with the pope, who was accompanied by security, aides and photographers. Mr. Staver said he expected to receive photographs of the meeting from the Vatican soon.
Ms. Davis, the Rowan County clerk, has been at the center of a nationwide controversy over whether government employees and private businesses have a legal right to refuse to serve same-sex couples. She spent five days in jail for disobeying a federal court order to issue the licenses.
Mr. Staver said that Vatican officials had been aware of Ms. Davis, and that the meeting had been arranged through them, not through bishops or the bishops conference in the United States. He would not identify the Vatican officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/county-clerk-kim-davis-who-denied-gay-couples-visited-pope.html?_r=0
djean111
(14,255 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)but they don't get that. They live in a total bubble. Wonder when the pope was last called a fag, beat up, bullied in school or worse.
yardwork
(61,598 posts)Wait. That's what they've done all along.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)edhopper
(33,573 posts)at that big rally for her in Peru?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)organized anti marriage equality conferences in the past with Francis to which he has invited Tony Perkins of FRC who was giving Kim an Award in DC on Friday. Big reports on such events:
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/at_traditional_marriage_conference_pope_francis_speaks_to_u_s_anti_hay_groups
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Why would it need to be secret?
Frankly, I don't give a rats butt who she meets with, she is a monster who is using her job to force her beliefs on others.