Kim Davis, the Woman Behind Bars

Liberty Counsel ^ | September 4, 2015 | lc.org

[Jim Robinson]

Press Release

Grayson, KY –Mat Staver told press outside the Carter County Detention Center that he spoke with Kim Davis, and she is in good spirits. Kim is very touched by all the support she feels from people literally around the world. Her last words before leaving were, “All is well.”

“Despite being held as a prisoner for her religious beliefs, her conscience remains unshackled. We discussed her options going forward. We will challenge Judge Bunning’s contempt order and her unlawful confinement,” Staver said. “Kim is resolute in her decision to challenge the issuance of any marriage certificate bearing her name without her authority.”

Many of you have asked to speak with Kim. Up to this point, she has shied away from media interviews. Let me take a few moments to give you a glimpse of the woman behind the bars:

10 Facts You Should Know About Jailed Clerk Kim Davis

1. Davis only asked that the Kentucky marriage license forms be changed so her name would not appear on them. She would record any license without her name affixed. Marriage licenses remain in county records permanently. Davis said, “I never imagined a day like this would come, where I would be asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus Himself regarding marriage. To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God’s definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience.”
2. Before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Obergefell on June 26, 2015, 57 clerks, including Davis, wrote a letter to Kentucky legislators during the regular session, pleading with them to “get a bill on the floor to help protect clerks” who had a religious objection to authorizing the licenses. The Kentucky Clerks Association also recommend that the names of clerks be removed from the forms.
3. Davis was elected County Clerk as a democrat in November 2014 and took office in January 2015, after her mother retired from the position. Before January, Davis was a Deputy Clerk for 27 years.
4. Kim Davis became a Christian at a church service she attended to honor the dying wish of her mother-in-law, who passed away on a Sunday morning. Davis said, “Following the death of my godly mother-in-law over four years ago, I went to church to fulfill her dying wish. There I heard a message of grace and forgiveness and surrendered my life to Jesus Christ.”
5. Davis, who is married to one of the 3 men she married and divorced, admits she was a sinner before she accepted Jesus Christ four years ago and changed her life.
6. Kim Davis does not hate homosexuals or lesbians, as she explained: “I have no animosity toward anyone and harbor no ill will. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God’s Word. It is a matter of religious liberty….”
7. Davis is a professing Christian who, before incarceration, attended church worship services multiple times per week and held a weekly Bible study with women at a local jail.
8. As elected officials, Kentucky Clerks can only be removed from office if impeached by the Kentucky House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate. The Kentucky General Assembly does not meet until January 2016.
9. The Supreme Court did not change Kentucky’s marriage law or its forms, but invalidated the legislation limiting marriage to opposite sex couples. It is up to each state’s legislature to conform the law to the opinion. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers filed a brief in Davis’s case, pointing out to the judge: “The Supreme Court ruling has completely obliterated the definition of marriage and the process for obtaining a marriage license in Kentucky. The General Assembly will be compelled to amend many sections of Kentucky law, not just for the issuance of marriage licenses, to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision.” The brief pointed out that the Governor can call a special session of the legislature, or he could issue an executive order about the licenses to later be codified by the legislature during the 2016 session.  A judge is not a super-legislature that can rewrite the law.
10. Davis is being represented at no charge by attorneys with Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family. Liberty Counsel was founded in 1989 and has offices in Florida, Virginia and Washington, D.C., an outreach in Israel, and hundreds of advocates around the world.

We will continue to stand with Kim Davis and others who assert their conscience. Kim joins a long list of people who were imprisoned for their conscience. People who today we admire like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Jan Huss, John Bunyan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and more. Each had their own cause, but they all share the same resolve not to violate their conscience.

Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.

[mbj]

Mr. Bunning speaks the words of a craven and ignorant fool.

For elaboration, go back through the threads and read the replies by “Hi Tech Red Neck” and by “Diamond”.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You could write her a letter maybe...

[Cold Heat]

Yeah...I saw them...

What I am trying to say is that he’s no different then any fed judge or any judge, lawyer, even the rank and file Republican I have ever had knowledge of, except for judge Roy Moore of Alabama and many here on the forum.

[Cold Heat]

In short, they are all craven and ignorant regarding the Constitution and believe it to be a “living document” amendable by the supreme court.

[Cold Heat]

One thing that is absolutely clear to me, and should be taken into consideration on any actions we take in the future.

We can tear Washington DC down and send it all to the rubbish dump, and we can fire every judge, every politician and their staffs...But all we have done is to pick a scab on a diseased body.

It is the education system, from low to higher ed, the law schools, journalism schools and even the medical schools that we also have to take apart.

That is where the disease grows..prospers, and spreads.

[444Flyer]

“It’s a world gone crazy
Keeps Woman in Chains
It’s under my skin but out of my hands
I’ll tear it apart but I won’t understand
I will not accept the Greatness of Man
It’s a world gone crazy
Keeps Woman in Chains
So Free Her
So Free Her”~~~’Woman in Chains’ by Tears for Fears

[444Flyer]

Psalm 118:6:

The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

[Vision Thing]

Thank you PrairieLady2 for your kind and encouraging words!

I pray with you for Kim to receive strength in her spirit, but I am thankful for her, too, because she is strengthening many of us through her example of courage and faithfulness.

[RobbyS]

I am talking about his replies to reporters’ questions.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

“Kentucky should just have civil union laws. Don’t even call it a marriage. A civil union can be anything. Why is the state even involved in marriage?

Marriage is a church institution.”

Civil unions would be the ideal remedy for this situation. They would give the homosexuals the legitimacy they need to collect government benefits.

However, the last line of your post holds the crux of the matter as far as homosexuals are concerned. All of the things that homosexuals say they want could be had with civil unions except the most important thing they want but won’t admit. The master they serve will have nothing less than to profane and defile what the Christian Church stands for at it’s very altar; thus sticking their virtual finger in the eye of the Almighty. The pastors who are performing the travesty of homosexual marriage in houses of worship are nothing more than Satan’s henchmen. They’re gathering souls for hell by the thousands by teaching their parishioners that it’s all for love.

[ru4liberty]

My Depression era parents were still in love with the democrat presidents of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s and didn’t recognize the demoncrat slide into godless communism.

Sounds like my parents. They were Dems because (1) their families of origin were, and (2) the union told them to be. But they were in no way liberal. Toward the end of their lives, it became more and more difficult for them to argue in favor of the sleaze that had crept into their party.

That's what happens when you take on the name identity of a particular party. They were married to the term "Democrat." It's also why I never call myself a Republican; rather I am a conservative. Whenever a Republican fails to be a conservative, that Republican has lost my vote.

[GregB]

I stand with Kim Davis!!