Here We Go Again: Kim Davis Asks Appeals Court to Let Her Stop Same Sex Marriages Again
It took Kim Davis less than a week to start pushing her bigoted agenda again, enabled by a team of religious right lawyers who are playing her like a violin: Kentucky Clerk Asks for Order Allowing All Couples to Marry to Be Put on Hold.
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis asked a federal appeals court on Friday to effectively end the requirement, currently in place under an order from the trial judge, that all couples be allowed to marry in the county.
On Aug. 12, U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered that Davis end her “no marriage licenses” policy as to the four couples — two same-sex and two opposite-sex couples — who brought the lawsuit. Davis had implemented the policy after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of nationwide marriage equality on June 26; Davis has religious objections to her name appearing on same-sex couples’ licenses.
I have to take issue with that last sentence I highlighted, because in reality Kim Davis doesn’t have “religious objections,” and I wish media would stop legitimizing her hateful crusade by repeating this bogus claim. The simple truth is that she’s a homophobic bigot, represented by lawyers who work for an outright hate group, Liberty Counsel, affiliated with the fanatical Liberty University founded by Jerry Falwell. This has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with regressive far right politics.