Posted on 09/06/2015 4:28:35 AM PDT by SkyPilot
As a defiant Kentucky clerk sat in jail Friday, choosing indefinite imprisonment over licensing gay marriages, her lawyers approached the microphones outside and compared her to Dr. Martin Luther King.
Around the country, other supporters reached for Biblical heroes, comparing her to Silas and Daniel, imprisoned for their faith and rescued by God.
It's precisely the narrative gay rights advocates had hoped to avoid. But as Davis' mug shot rocketed around the Internet, it became clear that the gay rights movement must battle this idea that Christianity is under siege, said Kenneth Upton, senior counsel for Lambda Legal, a law firm specializing in LGBT issues.
"This is what the other side wants," Upton said, pointing to the image of Davis in handcuffs. "This is a Biblical story, to go to jail for your faith. We don't want to make her a martyr to the people who are like her, who want to paint themselves as victims."
April Miller, left, and her partner Karen Roberts arrive to obtain their marriage license at the Rowan County Judicial Center in Morehead, Ky., Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Miller, one of the plaintiffs in the suit against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, applied for her license with her partner less than 24 hours after Davis was jailed on contempt charges.
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"Meanwhile, several of the couples who Davis had turned away "under God's authority" finally were able to pay their fees and get their licenses on Friday, holding hands and smiling for the cameras. All they wanted to do is get married after 11 years as a couple, April Miller and Karen Roberts said. Creating a poster child for Christian oppression wasn't part of their plan.
"...it became clear that the gay rights movement must battle this idea that Christianity is under siege..."
Christianity is under siege. Davis is being persecuted, not the homosexuals.
Paul wrote in the Book of Romans this regarding earthly society and government:
"If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone."
Romans 12:18
In this case, it is not possible, because homosexuality wants Christians to deny the Word of God and accept sin and the lies of Satan instead.
In Acts 5: 25-29, Peter and the other believers said this:
"Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.” At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.
The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”
Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!
Hey, she’d be just fine if she switched to government approved beliefs.
/sarc
Your leg is getting warm and wet.
They really want you to believe it is raining.
They are concerned about image for one reason.
The clerk is a martyr, persecuted for standing up for her religious beliefs.
Maybe tomorrow they’ll tell us who is or isn’t the Pope.
I understand full well why there was no other lifestyle choice for that pair. No man would dare touch something that ugly.
Ask me if I give a rodent’s rectum what gay rights advocates think or say?
Scotus didn't just create what it preposterously thinks is a natural right, it compounded the error by making fag marriage a societal right as well.
This opens the door to demanding all surgeons perform abortions.
We do not have to put up with tyranny.
I have posted it before. They do this every time. The “poster child” for queers is always some 40 or 50 something pair of females claiming to be lesbians. They are libtard activist spinsters. They don’t touch each other, either.
I have never seen Kim's defiance as being some kind of a martyr but a reasoned stand against government intrusion into her life
Every account I've read describes her as a good woman that has core beliefs that .... wait for it .... she really belives
I was a little surprised yesterday(?) when I caught a short comment by Rush that she was a democrat and maybe even an obama voter (I'm not sure of the context .. I was in and out of a car quickly)
Can you imagine those two doing that slippery eel thing?
Take your mental illness, get cured and then we'll be able to sit down and chat, freak.
I would hate to run into either of them in a dark alley. Either one would stop a runaway freight train.
Do you give a rodent’s rectum what gay rights advocates think or say?
Why are lesbians always so fat?
You know that the government has sponsored a study to try to figure that out, for real.
Faggies think they rule.
Well, this time they do. The Gaystapo has struck with power.
‘Cuz most lezzies are bull dykes; they wants to be guys so they eats like uzz guys.
OTOH, so-called “lipstick lesbians” can often look just like normal women.
Now the homos get to determined who’s a martyr and who isn’t? I must have missed that memo...
“We don’t want to make her a martyr to the people who are like her, who want to paint themselves as victims.”
Pot, meet kettle.
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