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.
There are people far more deserving our support in this matter than the Gothic Queen of the day.
JMO.
2hqt have you done to stop the homonazis then noob?
NOTHING, you sound like a troll and your name has been noted.
I think at the end of the day, its not her that you object to. Its her "cause" that you object too.
Who would be far more deserving for our support in this matter than her? She said no and went to prison for this matter. Are you really so shallow that you only see a person's looks and ignore the substance of what they are doing? Do you care more about her checkered past than Christ does? And do you have cause to judge her more sternly than Christ does?
As for the accusation of “lookism” ???
I stand GUILTY AS CHARGED.
:-)
Or would you prefer a more direct action on the subject?
Oh...and I am about as “noob” as dirt.
All your insults are belong to us!!!!!!!!
When you violate civil rights laws...you take your chances on going to jail. While I do not support pervert marriage, the law has been manipulated in a way that jail is an option given to judges to use as a form of enforcement.
She went to jail for that.
The rest is all theater to deflect, distract, and confuse some on our side.
I just didn’t fall for it.
Maybe next time.
Congress passed the Defense of Marriage act and liberals successfully argued that it wasn't necessary because no one was talking about gay's getting married. And the SC threw it out. The laws that have been passed by the people's representatives both state and federal that effect Kim have been in opposition to what a nine member court has ruled.
When you go to jail for your beliefs, then come back and criticize Kim. This isn't about theater, you're the only theater here.
exactly.
Won;t answer the question then .
I will ask again, what have you done to fight the homonazis?
You are a noob unless you are a retread and still can’t figure out why you were banned or you are trolling.
I get it. You’re a retread. :>)
Contempt of court. That is what sent her to jail.
Happens quiet a lot in this country.
First you said the above. Are you now agreeing she didn't violate anyone's civil rights?
I am starting to think perhaps you are a secret dart smoker though.
:-)
It ain’t the age...it’s the mileage.
:-)
That is the lefts premise.
The Syrian refugees we are importing may solve this problem in the long run anyway.
They like to play toss the gays.
So we can concentrate on more important issues than the sodomites jollies.
:-)
So I asked a simple question. First you told me she went to jail for violating civil rights. Are you now saying you misspoke? Yes or No would be an appropriate answer here.
She went to jail for contempt of court. In the view of said court; she was violating the sodomites civil rights via the SC ruling.
Simple really. And yet completely irrelevant to pressing issues of the day.
‘nuff said.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
Don’t count on an answer as I have ben asking what the noob has done and they can’t answer.
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