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Friendm,
Following the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Obergefell, David Ermold and David Moore could have taken a short drive to any of the many locations surrounding Rowan County, where Kim Davis was the clerk.
But the two Davids chose to target Kim Davis over her Christian faith.
Kim Davis had worked in the Rowan County clerk’s office for 26 years before being elected as county clerk in 2014.
That year the Supreme Court was hearing Obergefell v. Hodges, a case challenging Kentucky’s constitutional amendment of one man-one woman marriage.
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Though the Court had not yet ruled on the case in January 2015, when Kim took office, she began petitioning the Kentucky governor and state legislature to ensure that committed Christians like herself would be granted religious accommodation, should the High Court rule the wrong way.
Kim’s forward-thinking requests were ignored.
On June 26, 2015, the Court issued its infamous 5-4 opinion.
Kim became a deeply committed, born-again Christian four years earlier.
The Bible and natural law (nature itself) dictates marriage is between a man and a woman.
Kim could not violate the tenets of her faith by allowing her name to be used to endorse and officially approve a marriage that conflicts with God’s design.
Kim again appealed to the Democrat governor, who previously allowed his attorney general to opt out of defending the marriage amendment, but he refused to grant clerks any religious accommodation.
As Kim waited for her request, she stopped issuing any marriage licenses.
David Moore and David Ermold caught wind of Kim’s decision via a social media post announcing a protest at Kim’s office. Apparently eager to be part of the melee, the two Davids raced to Kim’s office with camera phones in hand, hoping to record an incendiary interaction with the Kentucky clerk.
They posted their video to a social media site and were excited when the post went viral within just hours.
At this point in time, all seven of the counties that surrounded Kim’s office were granting same-sex marriage licenses.
But the two Davids chose to specifically target Kim Davis.
Don’t let the LGBTQ target Christians.
On five separate occasions, the two Davids traveled to Kim’s office demanding a marriage license, knowing that Kim would refuse them, as she had been refusing ALL marriage licenses until she received word on her religious accommodation request.
Each time, the men made sure cell phone and video cameras were rolling as they harassed and hollered at the mild-mannered, soft-spoken Kentucky clerk.
Kim’s long hair was matched by her long skirts and the layered shirts she wore for modesty’s sake — both visible examples of her faith.
Each time the two Davids, and the rest of the angry protesters, filled her office, Kim never once raised her voice.
Instead, the mild-mannered clerk calmly informed Ermold, Moore, and the rest of the protesters that no marriage licenses would be issued until her appeal for a religious exemption was finished.
Despite the insults and expletives hurled at her, Kim never once broke her witness. Even when Kim and her family began receiving horrific death threats, she never retaliated.
Kim later received religious accommodation from the newly elected Republican Gov. Matt Bevin (who visited Kim in jail and attributed his win to his support of Kim).
And both Davids received their license from a clerk in Kim’s office while she was in prison for six days.
Now the two Davids (and April Miller, a professor at Morehead State University) are targeting Kim once again.
This time they want to sue Kim Davis into bankruptcy — all because they don’t like her Christian faith.
How have we come to a place where we can accommodate everybody else, but not Christians?
Kim wondered in a 2015 interview.
It’s a problem we see more often.
Time and again, the radical LGBTQ lobby has demanded that they and they alone be accommodated.
But anyone who might want accommodation from their aberrations they want punished.
That reasoning is unlawful at its core.
Jury selection will begin in Kim’s case on September 11, 2023.
We will tee up the case for the U.S. Supreme Court to (1) obtain religious accommodation and (2) overturn the 2015 Obergefell decision.
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But the LGBTQ army is already preparing their long-term tactic to eliminate religious freedom.
HR 15, the so-called “Equality Act” specifically eliminates RFRA.
That means that even Christian schools will be forced to allow cross-dressing male coaches to change in the locker rooms of the young girls he is grooming, “coaching.”
The 212 House Democrats need just six Republicans to join them in voting for this atrocity.
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Finally, I ask that you please pray for Kim Davis and her family. Kim is one of the kindest and most mild-mannered women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. There is no malice at all in this godly woman. Her faith and commitment to the Lord are evident in everything she does. But as a result of her faithful stand, she and her family have been the target of grotesque threats. Please pray for their protection during this trial.
Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
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Sources:
“Full Interview: Kim Davis Talks to Megyn Kelly about Gay Marriage Licenses.” Real Clear Politics, September 23, 2015. Realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/23/full_interview_kim_davis_talks_to_megyn_kelly
_about_gay_marriage_licenses-comments.html.“What If God Called You to Speak Out? Are You Ready?” Liberty Counsel. Accessed August 17, 2023. Lc.org/kim.
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