Gay man who was refused a marriage license by Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis will run against her in 2018.

Courtesy of Pink News:  

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis is set to re-run for election in 2018, despite her extreme opposition to LGBT rights and being put behind bars for contempt of court. 

Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples when she operated as a county clerk in 2015, but says she intends to retain her seat as Rowan County Clerk in next year’s elections. 

The task might have just got much tougher, however, after one of the men she denied a license to, David Ermold, considers standing against her in the race.

After she was sent to jail for six days for refusing a federal order to issue same-sex marriage certificates, Davis became a staunch anti-gay marriage campaigner. 

The Apostolic Christian has said that she refused to issue the licenses because same-sex marriage goes against her beliefs. 

Now Ermold wants to stop her. 

No Democrat has yet put their name forward to oppose the Republican right-winger. 

“If Kim Davis was reelected in that position without an appropriate fight, I’d probably regret it for the rest of my life,” Ermold, an English professor, told WKU Public Radio.

I love everything about this, and after Virginia elected a transgender woman during Tuesday's election, I think that the time is right for this kind of a challenge.

And would it not be perfect for Kim Davis to lose her reelection bid to the very people who she discriminated against?

Now THAT would be schadenfreude.

Judge demands that Kentucky pay the legal fees for the couples who were denied marriage licenses by county clerk Kim Davis.

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

Two years after Kim Davis first made national headlines, her anti-marriage equality case is closed, at least for now ― but it will come at a cost to local taxpayers. 

Davis, who is the county clerk for Kentucky’s Rowan County, steadfastly refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equality, citing her religious beliefs. Though Davis was briefly jailed for contempt of court, she went on to become the darling of right-wing conservatives, including former Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee. 

On Friday, a federal judge awarded $222,695 in legal fees to the attorneys of four couples ― two same-sex, two opposite-sex ― who were denied marriage licenses by Davis. (The clerk briefly refused to issue licenses to all couples in 2015 as her legal troubles began to mount.) However, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered the state, as opposed to Davis herself, to pay the fees. 

His reasoning was simple. “Davis represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky when she refused to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples,” he said, according to The New York Times. “The buck stops there.”

Well that's awesome.

And it certainly sends a strong message any other religious wing nuts who feel their personal prejudices are more important than the rights of American citizens.

You know I was just thinking how long it has been since we have heard anything about this Kentucky Fried Lunatic.

Here's hoping this is the final time we ever do.

In your good news of the day, Kentucky country clerk Kim Davis might have to pay $225,000 in legal fees accrued while fighting to keep same sex couples from getting marriage licenses.

Courtesy of the Lexington Herald Leader:

The legal battle over Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis isn’t over yet. Now it’s time to pay the lawyers. 

Attorneys for the couples who sued Davis last year to get marriage licenses have asked U.S. District Judge David Bunning for an order letting them recoup $233,058 in legal fees and costs. Their lawsuit went to the U.S. Supreme Court and back, with Davis losing at every step and even going to jail for five days on contempt charges, before the Kentucky legislature made the point moot in April by changing the state’s marriage licenses to remove county clerks’ names. 

That was the outcome Davis wanted. She objected on religious grounds to the legalization of same-sex marriage by the Supreme Court, and she didn’t want her name on licenses going to same-sex couples. 

As great as this is to hear, I think we all know that Davis will not have to pay a cent.

Even IF she is forced to pay I have little doubt that right now some homophobic wingnuts are starting a Go Fund Me account to pay the whole thing off.

After all, she is what passes for a conservative hero these days.

One of my favorite moments from last night's SOTU. President Obama takes on deniers of scientific facts.

Courtesy of Mediaite:

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama slipped in a well-placed subtle zing against climate deniers by pointing to our nation’s history of facing adversity. 

After a rousing section of oratory that briefly touched on the overreach of big banks and the need for small-businesses in the American economy, the President shifted to the role of innovation and science. 

The crack at first did not seem to fall on the entire House Chamber, but cameras caught several knowing Democrats — including Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, and next year’s potential address speaker Bernie Sanders — smirking along at the President’s jab.

Now see THAT is the kind of ninja like pointed remarks that Obama is really good at slipping into his speeches. The only problem is that a whole swath of the electorate is simply not sharp enough to pick up on them.

I call those people Republican voters.

You know the same people who invited this lunatic to sit in the audience during the State of the Union speech.

Let's face it even with her hair stacked that high, the remark went right over her head.

By the way another remark that the President made during his speech was this:

"Our businesses have created jobs every single month since it (Obamacare) became law."

As it turns out that is actually completely true.

Yeah, yet another fact that the conservatives refuse to accept.

And just when I thought I could not be more of a fan.

Courtesy of CNS News: 

In an interview for the December edition of Vogue, the subject of Kim Davis came up. Davis is the Kentucky county cleark who went to jail for refusing to sign wedding licenses for gay couples. 

Lawrence's reaction is described by Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter: 

The day I am at Lawrence’s house also happens to be the day after the infamous county clerk Kim Davis gets out of jail, where she had been sent for defying a court order requiring her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Lawrence brings it up, calling her that “lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky.” Kim Davis? “Don’t even say her name in this house,” she shoots back, and then goes into a rant about “all those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks, thinking they’re fighting the good fight. I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are.” 

There is a rabble-rousing spirit in Lawrence that gets stirred up when certain subjects are broached. “I was raised a Republican,” she says, “but I just can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights. It’s 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we’ve come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don’t want to stay quiet about that stuff.” It is not that big of a stretch to imagine her becoming a modern-day Jane Fonda, whom she deeply admires.

Well guess who has just been convinced to buy a ticket to the next Hunger Games movie. 

Boy do I love that crucifix and pitchfork comparison.

Essentially we have our own Christians trying to establish a Caliphate in this country and it is high time that people started saying that in public.

And clearly this young woman is not afraid to do so.

Well it appears that Kim Davis taking that courageous stand DID manage to shift opinions about gay marriage in this country. Of course they shifted AGAINST her position, but hey nobody's perfect!

Courtesy of Deadstate:  

A new Associated Press-Gfk poll has revealed that most Americans now believe that government officials should be required to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples, even if the official has religious beliefs that oppose same-sex marriage. 

The poll shows 56 percent of Americans now believe that government officials and clerks should be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, regardless of personal religious objections. Only 41 percent of Americans polled believe that religious government officials, like notorious Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, have a right to deny couples a marriage license. 

The new numbers signify a shift in thought from a July poll taken weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. The July poll showed that 49 percent of Americans believed that officials with religious objections had the right to refuse couples a marriage license. 

Surprisingly, Republican opinions have shifted the most dramatically in the past four months. While a majority 58 percent still support religious objections, the number is down 14 points from July’s 72 percent.

To be honest this shift cannot be entirely laid at the feet of Kim Davis, but let's face it when you are looking for the ugly face of Christian homophobia and discrimination in this country she turned out to be perfect for the job.

And by the way I am NOT focusing on her appearance.

I am talking about the deep down ugly that she tries to camouflage with religion.

Because beauty may only be skin deep, but this kind of prejudice and hatred penetrates the marrow of your bones.

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis loses in court, but kinda wins at the ballot box.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis has lost another bid to delay issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday denied her latest request for a reprieve.

So according to the courts Davis has to issue marriage licenses even if she thinks that by doing so the same sex couples will drag her to Hell along with them for all eternity.

Bummer.

But wait, all is not lost. Here comes newly elected Governor Matt Bevin to save the day: 

Republican Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin said he plans to sign an executive order removing county clerks' names from state marriage licenses in the hope of avoiding more controversies like the one that arose a few months ago when Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Reuters reported. Bevin will be sworn in to office Dec. 8. 

In his first media availability since the win Tuesday, Bevin said he hopes the executive order will protect the religious beliefs of officials who are opposed to gay marriage, WLKY reported.

So to be clear,  Rowan county will STILL be issuing marriage licenses to everybody, gay, straight, or bi. But now they will be issued without the name of the county clerk on them. And somehow THAT makes everything alright with Davis and her whackadoodle religious beliefs?

Got it.

Nice to see this Bevin guy come right out of the gate pandering his ass off to the crazies.

You know that does not bode well for the people of Kentucky. 

Of course what can you expect from a guy who got the Sarah Palin seal of approval? 

The AP obtains the e-mails of Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis. And yes they are just as batshit crazy as you imagine.

Courtesy of TPM:  

Davis' emails, obtained by the Associated Press under the Kentucky open records law, offer some insight into her state of mind in the weeks leading up to her five-day stint in jail for defying a federal court order to issue the licenses. 

"The battle has just begun," Davis wrote in the email to a supporter in July, hours after four couples filed a federal lawsuit against her. It was the start of a monthslong legal fight against licensing same-sex marriages. 

"It has truly been a firestorm here and the days are pretty much a blur, but I am confident that God is in control of all of this!!" she wrote to the supporter on July 2, the day the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against her on behalf of the couples. "I desire your prayers, I will need strength that only God can supply and I need a backbone like a saw log!!"

"Backbone like a saw log?"  Is that a Kentucky saying, or a crazy person saying?

But wait, there's more:  

Protesters crowded the courthouse lawn and news media from across the country descended on rural Rowan County. She complained to a supporter that the demonstrators stood outside her office window chanting into bullhorns. 

"Will your lawyers and several decent people be around you to protect you from the wicked threatening homosexual mob and their supporters?" a man from Somerset named Willie Ramsey wrote to ask. 

"They are going to try and make a whipping post out of me!!" she wrote in her response. "I know it, but God is still alive and on the throne!!! He IS in control and knows exactly where I am!!" 

"September 1 will be the day to prepare for, if the Lord doesn't return before then," Davis wrote him. 

("If the Lord doesn't return before then?" So she literally expects the end times to occur any day now.)

"I have weighed the cost, and will stay the course." Ramsey said he'd be willing to block the courthouse door if the law came for her that day. 

"I'm sure it will be a mad house!!" she told him, adding that "God will still be in control!!"

Whoa Nelly, that is some deeply psychotic babbling right there.

This woman is clearly suffering from a messiah complex and all of the media attention that she received only exacerbated her break with reality.

Here is what Slate had to say about the e-mails:

These are not the words of a rational public servant attempting to do her taxpayer-funded job to the best of her abilities. Nor are they the words of a conflicted religious person attempting to obtain an accommodation to balance her personal faith and public duties. These are the words of a religious fanatic who views herself as the protagonist in an epic, possibly biblical battle between good and evil—a millenialist zealot who hopes the rapture, rather than mere earthly courts, will intervene to save her.

Exactly! This is a woman suffering from a rather severe mental illness.

Which means that either Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, who both showed up in Kentucky to support her, do not realize that, or suffer from the same or similar psychological issues.

Now don't get me wrong, I think that most people can have faith without necessarily losing the ability to separate reality from magical thinking, but in the case of this individual that is simply not true.

In my opinion a person like this should NEVER hold any kind of important public office, and any person who supports a person like this, should be kept as far away from the White House as humanly possible.

Simply put, this kind of thinking is dangerous.

Company offers county clerk Kim Davis half a million dollars to appear in an interracial lesbian porn movie. Oh, that's just not right.

Homphobe, county clerk, and potential porn star, Kim Davis.

The company is called Dogfart, and this is their press release courtesy of Death and Taxes: 

With all the controversy surrounding Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ refusal to issue same sex marriage licenses even after the Supreme Court of the United States made same sex marriage the law of the land, The Dogfart Network which is the leading online destination for Adult Interracial content is offering the Holy Kim Davis a chance at redemption. 

The undisputed kings of interracial porn are dangling $500k to star in a scene for their site ZebraGirls.com, which is one of 23 sites in the companies vast Adult Entertainment Empire. ZebraGirls.com specializes in Lesbian Interracial Erotica. 

“We here at Dogfart have always believed in equality. We have interracial sites, gay sites, straight sites, and we think Kim Davis has been appalling,” said a Dogfart Spokesman. “We are giving her a chance at a redemption. We are willing to drop half a million bucks for Kim to come out to our studio and shoot an Interracial Lesbian scene for our network.” 

The offer will stand for the next week. She is also welcome to bring her family with her on an all expense paid vacation. 

Do you hear that, Kim Davis? Several times your yearly salary to film a sex scene with the single most attractive person you will ever get to see naked, probably. And you can bring the kids! Sounds like a win-win to me.

Okay if I develop erectile dysfunction in the next year or so, this will mark the day that it probably started.

I have little doubt that this is just a joke, because...I mean....but who would.....yeah it's gotta be a joke.

I like the offer to "bring the kids." And they say porn companies are not family friendly.

But still, no.

I'm sorry, I meant to say hell no!

Southern Poverty Law Center labels group representing Kim Davis a hate group. Yeah I get that.

Courtesy of Salon:  

The Liberty Counsel — the group that’s representing Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis — has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Associated Press’ Claire Galofaro reports. 

According to the SPLC, the group and its leader, Mat Staver, have virulently opposed all LGBTQ rights legislation under the aegis of “religious freedom” — it’s even defended Scott Lively, who “played an instrumental part in the Ugandan parliament’s adoption of a draconian anti-LGBT bill that originally included the death penalty in some instances.” 

According to Staver, hate crimes legislation is the equivalent of “‘thought crimes’ laws that violate the right to freedom of speech and of conscience” and “have a chilling effect on people who have moral or religious objections to homosexual behavior.” 

The Liberty Counsel has come under fire for its management of Davis, first after Staver claimed that an image of 100,000 people in Peru were gathered to pray for Davis — they were not, a fact for which Staver blamed a “miscommunication” with Peruvian officials — and later for misrepresenting Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis.

There are some who will accuse the SPLC of going on an ideological witch hunt, and in fact the Liberty Council spokesman is already doing just that.

However in my opinion calling them a hate group is a reasonable assertion, even without the rather long laundry list of reasons given by SPLC.

After all, who BUT a hate group could possibly represent Kim Davis?

SNL mocks Kim Davis, and the other terrible people of this last summer. Oh and Hillary Clinton appears in cameo that should not be missed.

Courtesy of Addicting Info: 

Cyrus sang “My Way” as memories from the summer were revisited by the cast. Davis, wasn’t the only one to be mocked, however. Rachel Dolezal was satirized, as well as the dentist who killed Cecil the lion, Jared Fogle, and many more. Pope Francis was also visibly seen trying to distance himself from Davis.

I don't always enjoy the opening monologue, nor Miley Cyrus, but I found myself laughing out loud several times while watching this last night.

But as good as that was you really need to treat yourself to Hillary in a cameo as a bartender serving drinks to Kate McKinnon portraying Hillary Clinton.

That was so good it reminded me of Tina Fey turning Sarah Palin into a national laughingstock.

(I'm sorry that should read "revealing to the world that Sarah Palin was already a national laughingstock.")

Vatican spokesman: There is "a sense of regret" concerning the Pope's meeting with Kim Davis.

Courtesy Yahoo News: 

Pope Francis' meeting last week with an American woman at the center of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday. 

One Vatican official said there was "a sense of regret" that the pope had ever seen Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in September for refusing to honor a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and issue same-sex marriage licenses. 

The encounter in Washington was originally kept secret and has sparked widespread debate since it became public this week, proving something of a misstep for the pontiff. 

Looking to smother the fierce controversy, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Davis was one of "several dozen" people who had been invited by the Vatican ambassador to see Francis during his visit to the U.S. capital. 

"The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Lombardi said in a statement.

That sort of falls in line with some of the other recent reporting indicating that the Pope may have been tricked into meeting Davis, and that she was just a person among many to have a face to face with the Pope but that it was by no means an endorsement of her position.

Since I thought that overall the Pope's visit to America was very positive, I would like to believe that the Pope simply did not know who this person was, or understand how this interaction would be interpreted.

However I would hope that there was some disciplinary action taken on whoever set this thing up and gave the okay for it to happen in the first place.

Homophobic county clerk Kim Davis met with Pope Francis during his visit to America. Wait, what?

Courtesy of NPR: 

"I never thought I would meet the Pope," Davis said via her legal team. "Who am I to have this rare opportunity? I am just a County Clerk who loves Jesus and desires with all my heart to serve him." 

The meeting is said to have occurred last Thursday, the same day Francis addressed Congress. Davis was in Washington for another purpose: She received a Cost of Discipleship award at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit on Friday night. 

"Just knowing the pope is on track with what we're doing, and agreeing, you know, kind of validates everything," Davis tells ABC News Wednesday morning, speaking about her meeting with Pope Francis and the stand she has taken against same-sex marriage. 

She adds, "I've weighed the cost, and I'm prepared to do whatever it takes."

Asked for comment Vatican spokesmen did not deny that the meeting took place. 

You know all of my warm fuzzies about this Pope just dried right up now.

Either he is dedicated to helping to oppress the LGBT community, or he simply does not understand American law. But either way this is a huge screw up on his part.

And you have to know that this is going to re-energize support for Davis and reinvigorate her desire to be seen as a martyr to the cause of "protecting traditional Biblical marriage."

On Friday night's Real Time Bill Maher calls out Republicans over their terrible choice in heroes.

Courtesy of Politicususa:  

Maher asked Republicans, “If these better than the rest of us real Americans really do exist, how come when they find one, they turn out to be a creep? Either you’re a terrible judge of character, or there’s nobody home at the good people house.” 

The Real Time host ran down the list. Kim Davis turns out to be everything Republicans hate. Cliven Bundy is a racist. George Zimmerman is an angry racist who keeps getting in trouble with the police. Joe The Plumber was a totally fabricated lie.

Of course Maher saved his most scathing remarks for sister molester and Ashley Madison customer Josh Duggar:

"Josh traded on his family’s image to work as a lobbyist for the ultra-conservative Family Research Council, and all of the Republican presidential candidates wanted a picture with him. Until it turned out, he had two Ashley Madison accounts, had paid for rough sex with porn stars and had molested his sisters."

Of course to that list we could also add the tragically stupid Sarah Palin, the Blinded by the Bible Ben Carson, and of course the incredibly ego-maniacal Donald Trump.

In fact one would be hard pressed to think of a single conservative icon who was not completely phony, as well as a tragically flawed human being.

Yes and to that list I would also add Republican hero Ronald Reagan. Who not only raised taxes, and granted amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants, but also resided over one of the most corrupt administrations in recent memory.

Kentucky county clerk, and now world famous homophobe, Kim Davis changes her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.

Courtesy of AP: 

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a longtime Democrat, says she is switching to the Republican Party because she feels abandoned by Democrats in her fight against same-sex marriage. 

Davis' made the announcement while in Washington, D.C., to attend the Family Research Council's Value Voters Summit, said Charla Bansley, a spokeswoman for Liberty Counsel, which represents Davis in her legal battles. 

"I've always been a Democrat, but the party left me," Davis said, according to Bansley.

No I would say that SHE abandoned the Democratic party four years ago when she became an Apostolic Christian.  I'm not saying there aren't any of those among Democrats but I would be willing to bet that they are few in number.

Somehow I doubt that there are too many Democrats arguing for her to stay in the party.

In fact I don't think many of us realized she was one of us in the first place.

So look GOP. You may have lost a Speaker of the House today, but you gained an anti-gay marriage religious nut.

Congratulations.

Why Kentucky clerk Kim Davis does not want to resign: "If I resign I lose my voice."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis remained insistent that she was right in denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples during an interview on Wednesday with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. 

“When the legal challenges ended up not going in your favor, many people have asked, why not just resign at that point?” Kelly asked. 

“If I resign I lose my voice,” Davis replied. “Why should I have to quit a job that I love and that I’m good at? I’ve been a county employee and served the public well for over 26 years before I got elected. It comes back to, they can accommodate for all sorts of issues, and we ask for one simple accommodation and we cannot receive it.” 

The interview aired hours after a federal judge rejected Davis’ request for a stay on the order imposed upon her to issue the licenses regardless of sexual orientation.

It does not matter if Davis has "served the public well for 26 years." She is not serving the public well today and she should leave her position so that somebody who is not a Christo-fascist can take the job.

I found it almost incredible that at one point Davis says "Have we come to a place that we can't accommodate everybody? That we can't agree to disagree, and still have respect for each other?"

Of course the answer is yes. We can.

But apparently SHE cannot. Nor can she use her authority to deny rights to a group of people with whom she disagrees.

Oh and in response to her contention that she is simply upholding the word of God, and how God defined marriage "since the beginning of time," perhaps Davis needs to study this a little more carefully.

Oh and as for that "beginning of time" statement, perhaps an Anthropologist of Archaeologist could explain to her that neither Christianity nor Judaism has been around since the "beginning of time."

Kim Davis has a case of the sads because people are claiming that she a "hypocrite of a Christian."

Courtesy of ABC News:

"What people say about me does not define who I am. That’s everybody’s opinion and that’s everybody’s right," Davis told ABC News. 

Davis said she's been "called Hitler, I’ve been called [a] hypocrite, I’ve been called a homophobe." 

(Okay well the Hitler reference is unfair, but the second part.....)

"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," Davis said. "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."

Okay now when Davis says "when I was in the world" what she means by that is that as a born again Christian she is no longer part of the natural world, and is only vapor waiting to be transported to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Which, let's face it, is pretty batshit crazy.

So here is my question.

If you are no longer "of this world" then what in the hell are you doing denying marriage licenses to people who are "of this world?"

If you have the golden ticket to heaven then why not ignore all of the heathens around you and sit in your house all day watching the Trinity Broadcasting Network until you number comes up? 

After all there are people who are actually present in this life, and they would like to enjoy that life without homophobic Fundamentalists fucking things up for them. 

Kim Davis removes not only her name but also the name of the county on new marriage licenses. May render them invalid.

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

A deputy for the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples questioned on Friday the validity of the licenses he has issued since his boss' return. 

In a filing with the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for not issuing marriage licenses, the attorney for deputy clerk Brian Mason said he has "some substantial questions" about the new licenses Davis altered and gave him to issue after she returned to work on Monday. 

He is concerned the licenses do not mention the name of the county. Davis has directed him to sign the licenses as a notary public, instead of as a deputy county clerk, Mason's attorney, Richard Hughes, said in the documents. 

While Davis also does not believe the licenses are valid, no one has challenged their legality in court. Both the state's governor and attorney general have said the new licenses are valid.

You know I am really tired of this lunatic. 

I think this is clearly an attempt on her part to render these licenses invalid, and though it may not work it is still defying the orders given by the judge which specifically forbade her from interfering in the issuance of these marriage licenses.

Personally I hope that the judge finds her in contempt of a court order and has her arrested again.

And I further hope that those Oath Keeper assholes try to interfere on her behalf, because I happen to know that law enforcement is ready for them.

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis back at work, still defiant.

Courtesy of NPR:

Flanked by Rowan County Sheriff's deputies and her son, Nathan, Davis said she loves God and her job but won't authorize the issuing of marriage licenses to gay couples. 

"I am here before you this morning with a seemingly impossible choice, which I do not wish on any of my fellow Americans," she said. "My conscience or my freedom." 

"My conscience or my ability to serve the people that I love," Davis said, choking back tears. "Obey God or a directive that forces me to disobey God." 

Her decision was clear, she said: "Effective immediately, and until an accommodation is provided, by those with the authority to provide it, any marriage license issued by my office will not be issued or authorized by me." 

"I love my deputy clerks and I hate that they have been caught in the middle. If any of them feels that they must issue an unauthorized license to avoid being thrown in jail, I understand their tough choice and I will take no action against them," Davis said, but added: "Any unauthorized license that they issue will not have my name, my title or my authority on it. Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order."

Davis is asking the Governor to change the guidelines and allow marriage licenses for gay couples to  be issued under the "generic authority of the state," meaning I suppose that she would not have to have her name attached to their marriage licenses.

So to be clear Davis is still not complying with the law, and is instead simply not stopping the issuance of marriage licenses that she views as unauthorized and therefore illegal.

Yeah, she really needs to go.

And by the way she is not alone.

This is what awaits Kim Davis when she returns to work on Monday.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Non-profit organization Planting Peace just erected the above billboard in Davis' hometown of Morehead, Kentucky. The message is plain and simple -- if Davis is going to use Biblical rhetoric to justify her opposition to same-sex marriage, she might want to take a closer look at how else marriage has been redefined in relation to the book's sacred teachings. 

"The intent of this billboard is to expose how the anti-LGBT movement is selective in what rules to follow and how they choose to define 'traditional' institutions or values," Aaron Jackson, president of Planting Peace, told The Huffington Post. "It's important and relevant to call this out, because the actions of Kim Davis and the messages from the anti-LGBTQ movement are not simply about a political or religious debate. There are LGBT youth across the world who are taking their lives at an alarming rate because of these messages from society that make them feel broken or less than. We have to meet hate with love, intolerance with compassion. Our message to our LGBT youth is simple: You are loved, valued, supported, and beautiful. There is nothing wrong with you, and we will stand by you. You are not alone."

By the way I have a source in Kentucky that is telling me that we all need to really pay attention to Kentucky when Davis returns to her job on Monday.

 There is some trouble a brewing.