Kentucky Clerk: ‘I’m Going To Fight And Die For’ My Right To Not Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

A Kentucky county clerk vows to die to protect what he sees as his right to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Although she has been getting the bulk of attention, Rowan County clerk Kim Davis is not the only county clerk in Kentucky who is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Casey County Clerk Casey Davis, who says his only relationship to Kim Davis is that she’s his sister in Christ, has also refused to allow same-sex couples to marry.

Last month Davis actually sat down with Gov. Steve Beshear, who told him he had to, yet he still refuses.

Now, Davis is ramping up his fight.

“Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected,” Davis told a local Kentucky radio host this week, as Right Wing Watch first reported.

“If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do. They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die for my kids and your kids can keep it.”

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Davis also took Gov. Beshear to task.

“I think that’s a travesty to think that just because he don’t see it this way or his opinion is to let same-sex marriage go and it’s all right that us as Christians, we as Christians just don’t have rights anymore? That’s wrong sir. That’s not right,” Davis insisted.

“It’s a war on Christianity,” he added. “There is a travesty taking place with that Supreme Court ruling was completely unconstitutional, completely unconstitutional. They have no right to tell us, the state of Kentucky, that our law that was voted with what was 70 percent of the people that it was wrong, they had no right.”

If you listen to the full clip, you can hear Davis strongly suggest he believes the constitution of the State of Kentucky has power over the constitution of the United States of America, and clearly it seems no one is telling him just how wrong he is.

The portion quoted above starts at about the 3:30 mark. Listen:

 

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Image: Screenshot via Kentucky.com/YouTube
Hat tip and audio: Right Wing Watch