Posted on 09/25/2015 9:01:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kentucky county Clerk Kim Davis, who may go back to jail based upon a new complaint, discussed what has caused her the most pain during her ordeal.
"What people say about me does not define who I am," Davis told ABC News on Monday. "That's everybody's opinion and that's everybody's right."
Davis, 50, admitted that she had been called "Hitler" and "a homophobe" by some of her detractors but said those names do not hurt her.
"I've been called things and names that I didn't even say when I was in the world. Those names don't hurt me," declared Davis. "What probably hurt me the worst is when someone tells me that my God does not love me or that my God is not happy with me, that I am a hypocrite of a Christian."
Davis claims she has never once spoken out in hate during the controversy. "I'm just a normal person that's been touched by the grace of God and his mercy." She added that she has not always been a good person saying, "I'm forgiven. I have been washed clean."
"My constituents elected me but the main authority that rules my life is the Lord," said Davis. She told ABC News she is unable "to put her name on a license that does not represent what God ordained marriage to be."
According to Reuters, Davis is once again in contempt of the federal ruling against her because of an accusation by the plaintiff's attorneys that she has altered marriage forms to comply with her religious conscience objection of same-sex marriage.
Davis, who returned to work last week, after being jailed for five days on contempt of court charges, was ordered not to interfere directly or indirectly with the issuing of marriage licenses. Davis's attorney says they are asking licenses to remove her name and not be signed by a deputy clerk with her name attached.
According to the BBC and other media sources, Davis removed her name from the marriage licenses, replacing it with the phrase "pursuant to federal court order." Davis told ABC News she would return to jail if the federal courts ordered her to discontinue altering the licenses.
Davis' attorney, Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, expressed outrage at the plaintiffs unwillingness to go along with the compromise.
"The ACLU's motion to again hold Kim Davis in contempt reveals that their interest is not the license but rather a marriage license bearing the name of Kim Davis. They want her scalp to hang on the wall as a trophy," he told Reuters.
Some Republican presidential candidates and others defending Davis, a Democrat, who was elected by the people of Rowan County, Kentucky, are arguing for the state intervene to protect rights they say are guaranteed under the U.S. and Kentucky Constitutions that allow for full expression of her religious beliefs, while providing an alternative solution, such as ordering her name removed from the form, which could still fully comply with the federal court order.
Davis is not the only clerk in Kentucky expressing dissention over being compelled to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Christian Post has reported that Casey Davis, another county clerk in the Kentucky has expressed solidarity with Davis in not granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of religious objections.
According to Davis's attorney, county clerks in over five states are seeking religious conscience protections from attaching their names to same-sex marriage licenses.
She’s not a symbol of moral clarity? Hay seed hag? Her moral clarity post-Jesus seems fine. All the better illustration of the transforming power of Christ. Does calling her a hay-seed hag come from your “moral clarity”? Since you cite your tag line as you shrug off your behavior, I have a suggestion for a new tag line for you: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.-— Abraham Lincoln
Does anyone see anything wrong w/ what she’s going? Was there a new Law that codified the SCoTUS’ decision?
IMO, until that time, she is EXACTLY right to write ‘per SCoTUS’ instead of her name.
I learned this in the 5th or 6th grade history. Unfortunately, in those days, we were deprived of being educated on how to properly put on a rubber. I don’t know how we ever survived...
JEDI4S
Since Jul 29, 2015
She has sure upset a good many homosexual freaks...... you sound like you might be one of them....?
Perhaps it is a fag that needs to go.
A while back, there was a county clerk (I believe it was in Pennsylvania, but I could be mistaken about that) who began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples despite the fact that it was not yet legal in that state. He was ordered to stop, but continued to issue them anyway. I don’t recall the ACLU going after him, or him going to jail. Does anyone else here recall that case? Can you provide more detail than what I’m giving here?
Presaging Christians removal from government.
Like what was pointed out , silence is embracing.
What have you done to stand up to the homonazis then, besides just registering on here noob?
HUH fight them later, er when , they have virtually passed nearly everything they wanted.
You sound like an establishment fool or a noob troll.
Seems we have a troll who has just registered.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Thirty years ago the homos would be in a mental institution....then the liberals opened the gates....
Ain't nothing wrong with being a hayseed.
Yes.
HE has not returned yet.
So don't mind me If I don't worship a false prophet who had a come to Jesus moment just in time to deflect attention away from far more important issues than how the sodomites get their jollies. A couple a folks straight out of a bad Stephen King novel are not the idols I wish to worship.
JMO!!!!!!
All your lame insults are belong to us!!!!
Don’t let a date in time cloud your judgement...it’s a good way to get STUNED...............
:-)
Well...I don’t support democrats. No matter what their “cause celeb” of the day may be.........
“They” don’t get distracted by every little shrill who suddenly jumps ship to their side nor do they worship that turncoat as an idol.
They take to the courts, take to the legislature, and when that fails they take to the streets.
We worship a false prophet and hope that makes it all better.
JMO.
She is actually doing something about the problem. You’re not. She is taking a stand for her beliefs and will likely go to prison again. And, you don’t want to support her because she’s not GQ enough, or because her past is to checkered. I’ll would guess this, she knows way more about Christ than you do.
In humility;
JEDI.
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