When two Gay men entered the public building whose power, upkeep, and employee salaries are paid for by the taxpayers of Rowan County, Kentucky to get a legal marriage license, the clerk, Kim Davis, refused to do the job for which she received a salary by refusing to issue one.

She was expressing her disapproval of same-sex marriage on “company time” while at her workplace.

Davis had begun turning away gay couples from her county office who were seeking marriage licenses, and following complaints from them, she decided to issue no marriage licenses to anyone so no one could accuse her of discrimination. Again, on “company time” and in her workplace as she continued to accept her salary while not doing her job, a job about which she pledged upon being elected to do it,

“I promise to each and every one that I will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter.”

When she was sued for not doing her job, for which the county paid her $80,000, and refusing to “follow the statutes of this office to the letter.” Davis argued that issuing licenses under her name violated her beliefs, citing her religious rights.

This woman who has been married four times to three different men, the first three marriages ending in divorce, and who has two daughters from her first marriage and twins who were born five months after her divorce from her second husband and after she married her third husband who was actually the biological father of the twins who were then adopted by her second husband , on whom she had obviously cheated, when she remarried him, and who is also her fourth and current husband, does not think same sex marriage respects “traditional marriage”.

A subsequent court appearance resulted in her being held in contempt of court, she was put in jail, and after 5 days she was released with the judge ordering that,

“Defendant Davis shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. If Defendant Davis should interfere in any way with their issuance, that will be considered a violation of this order and appropriate sanctions will be considered.”

She did, however alter the official license form by removing her name as clerk along with any reference to the clerk’s office, and, although this move made the validity of them questionable, the court decided that in spite of the action, the licenses were valid.

She had protested the Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage, doing so on public, not private, property, during her hours of employment.

The same people who, while claiming that the NFL players should not protest racial inequality before a game because their political and personal convictions have no place where they work during “business hours”, object to their taking a knee, supported Davis when she did that.

At the time, the Liberty Counsel, the law firm that defended Davis, stated,

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Mike Huckabee said that the Kim Davis case was part of a “criminalization of Christianity”, and he organized a rally for her outside the jail where she had been held.

Ted Cruz called her a victim of “judicial tyranny”.

Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Matt Bevins, among other prominent conservatives, spoke in favor of a person who refused to do her job because of a personal opinion expressed at her workplace while still collecting her salary.

One-third of Americans polled said she should continue working while refusing to issue marriage licenses, supporting the idea that her expressing her opinion at the work place was the correct thing to do.

Following her lead, other conservative jurisdictions have made their decision to use their workplace as the venue to protest something with which they did not agree.

Counties in Alabama stopped issuing marriage licenses to anyone, and probate judges Nick Williams and John Enslen stopped issuing licenses and performing weddings.

An often repeated defense of Davis can be summed up in the words of Casey County Clerk Casey Davis (no relation to Kim) who said,

“There’s a war going on in this country, and it’s a war against Christianity.”

This war, of course consists in holding Christians to follow the laws of the land like everyone else and not look for excuses to discriminate against their fellow citizens.

Yet, ironically, those who want to call on this for justification to allow protests at work ignore and deny the actual war with body counts that is being waged against racial minorities, people of minority religions, and anyone the majority considers “others”.

Maybe the NFL players should just claim that they are exercising their religious beliefs.