The problem is not Kim Davis or her skewed sense of morality, but rather the sensationalism that the conservative right has come to adore. Conservatives want everyone to live by a certain moral code that is wrapped around God and his influence on the world. There have been many attempts of late to try to wrap law into religion, and all need to fail. I hear people yelling about Shia Law yet here they are trying to violate my rights to humanity by claiming religious liberty. Shia Law is not the same as religious indoctrination, but the principal is very much the same.
If we were to follow the bible as law, the passages that prohibit homosexuality also declare women as chattel, that husbands have a duty to beat their wives (more than one), and that a daughter is worth 3 goats and a cow. We have long since abandoned the passages permitting bigamy, women as chattel, beatings and dowry, yet they still want to press the gay one. Times change and with it the moral compass. Many things today violate christian belief, divorce being chief among them. Yet divorce is legal and practiced by many "religious" people.
The sun has not gone nova, the seas have not swallowed up the land, and your marriage is just as valuable (or not) as it was before. The whole point of this blog is to express how ridiculous it is that we as a people in the 21st century are still fighting for equality. Religion has no place in government. The first Amendment to the Constitution is about keeping religion to religion and law to law. In this case, Kim Davis is violating the first Amendment. Her religion is hers to practice, but when she walks in the door and becomes an elected body, religion cannot influence that job.
Bottom line...Do Your Damned Job, or Resign.
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The large problem with religion and law ramifies from religion being the law. They went in and wiped entire countries out in the name of the lord. Once they did that, they slammed the good book down and said this is what you are to live by now. Nevertheless, Kim Davis should've took the proper measures and stepped down but she chose be an epicenter either to set an example for others who aspired to follow in her footsteps, or to fulfill some personal need for attention, or to fall victim to her own belief system, or any combination of things. She's been in the limelight now for weeks and I just think it sucks.
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