Attorneys for Kim Davis, the county clerk who has been married four times yet refuses to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, citing religious objections, have issued a rather offensive court filing.
Marriage is one of the most important and respected institutions in the world. Many people of faith call it sacred. Conservatives claim they are defending it by working as hard as they can to prevent same-sex couples from gaining access to marriage.Â
Marriage is marriage.
Marriage is not war.
And yet even now, after the nation’s highest court has ruled same-sex couples cannot be banned or barred from it, anti-gay conservatives are still belittling and degrading the marriages of same-sex couples.
Take Liberty Counsel, the attorneys for Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
Davis of course is the anti-gay apostolic Christian who, as her attorneys claim, is so religious she “attends church ‘[e]very time the doors are open.'” Apparently, four times the church doors were open, Davis managed to walk in and walk out a newly-married woman.
Davis opted to retain the services of Liberty Counsel, which is listed on the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group, after being sued by a same-sex couple to whom she refused to issue a marriage license.
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Liberty Counsel on Thursday filed a lengthy brief with in federal court that suggests same-sex marriage is war and likens Davis to a noncombatant religious objector, as the Courier-Journal reports.
“Like a noncombatant who cannot shoulder a rifle, a county clerk who cannot issue†marriage licenses to same-sex couples “can still faithfully and devotedly serve this country, and their county,†the filing reads.
“If Kentucky is able to accommodate personal beliefs and conscientious objection regarding something that is (to some) as trivial as fishing and hunting, surely Kentucky can and must provide similar accommodation for deeply held beliefs about the fundamental nature of marriage,†Liberty Counsel insists.
In court last week, Davis told the judge, if she authorizes a marriage license for a same-sex couple, “I’m saying I agree with it. I can’t do that.”Â
In their court filing, Liberty Counsel claims if Davis is forced to issue the license, it would be a “searing act of validation” that “would forever echo in her conscience.”
The complete filing is embedded below.
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