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Maybe she has bills to pay?

Sheeesh

Kim wasn’t the one publicizing this, it was the two guys that wanted her to sign their marriage certificate. That is why they made a video of it.

The broader point is: If you are Christian, you need not apply for ANY government job, unless you are willing to deny your faith. This is the shot across the bow.

If you’re a genuine believer, you don’t take a paycheck from The Beast.

As someone who has quit a government contract before precisely for this reason, I know exactly what making this decision is like.

The sticking point is the paycheck. Give it up and her problem goes away. But of course that doesn’t allow her to do the attention-seeking martyr thing or let her pocket money involuntarily extracted (AKA stolen) from taxpayers.

She fits the profile of a fake justifier exactly. They are epidemic here so I’m extremely familiar with it. The religious claim is a cover for what she really wants - the money and the attention. Joyce Lewis-Kugle is the example of what a genuine believer does in this exact same situation, and puts Davis to shame.

And just so there's no mistake here, if her position was "I follow the laws of the State of Kentucky and the federal incursion is unlawful under the 9th Amendment", that I would have her back on. That is a lawful position for a government employee to take.

However, that is not her actual position. Her actual position is "The court order bids me to act in my official capacity in a way that conflicts with my personal religious beliefs." That can't be permitted.

As a government actor she cannot overrule the law in the course of her duties based on her personal beliefs - else, what are we bitching about Lois Lerner et al for? Lerner's acts were based on using the power of her government position to the ends of her own personal beliefs.

As we all acknowledge, Lerner's assertion that the Fifth Amendment (a private citizen's right) covered her actions as a government actor is grossly offensive and inverts the very purpose of that right. In the same way, Davis' actions as a government actor inverts the purpose of the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. These freedoms exist to protect private citizens from government interference; they are not levers by which a government actor may cover crimes (in Lerner's case) or defy the law (in both cases).

"If you are Christian, you need not apply for ANY government job, unless you are willing to deny your faith."

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Hey! that's a WONDERFUL notion! Let's have all of Christianity utterly ABANDON positions in the public sector, thus leaving it all in the hands of the godless.

Surely THAT will bring "hasten The Day."
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