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"She gave birth to twins five months after divorcing her first husband. They were fathered by her third husband but adopted by her second. Davis worked at the clerk's office at the time of each divorce and has since remarried."

If this statement is accurate then it's even more bizarre than Dan's interpretation! If she gave birth to twins 5 months after divorcing her 1st husband, then she was sleeping with the father of the twins (future 3rd husband) while she was still married to the first husband. But after divorcing the first husband, she married husband #2 and convinced him to adopt the babies. wow.
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Sounds like she was sleeping with her third husband, while still married to the first husband. I'm guessing the second husband thought the kids came from the first husband.
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Damn, erino beat me to it.
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Husband #2 and Husband #4 are the same man. They remarried 13 years to the day of MarriageAttempt#1.
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Thank you thank you thank you to the reporters who dug up that information!
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But of course Dan, that's how they pull credulous sheep like Davis into the flock, precisely by promising that all the bad things they've ever done in their past lives will be forgiven, the slate wiped clean, the Golden Ticket VIP entry into Heavenland guaranteed - all by surrendering your heart-and-soul to the Great, Blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-totin', homo-hatin' son-o'-God hisself: Jesus H. Christ. It's the ultimate "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, and all you have to do to earn it is profess your eternal love for The Lord. PLUS, you can still be the same old bigot you were before, because God hates all the same things you hate, and HE LOVES YOUR HATE. LOVES IT WITH GODLY GOODNESS! In fact, the MORE you hate the more he LOVES you!

Seriously, what low-intelligence, low-information, low-income, low-brow WOULDN'T be tempted to fall for a pitch like that?
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Meh, isn't "Do as I say, not as I do" the golden rule or something?

Also, not really relevant, but how the hell did that homely woman get three different guys to marry her?
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A clip from the USNWR piece: "The Casey County clerk currently is riding a bicycle across Kentucky to raise attention to the issue and wants Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear to call a special session of the state legislature to pass a law allowing local clerks to play no role officiating marriages and make their role mere record keeping." Which shows the fundamental misunderstanding these two have about their role in marriage licenses -- all their signature attests is that the paperwork is in order and that the two applicants are legally qualified to marry; the county clerks are not in any way AT ALL officiating marriages now, all their role consists in is the "mere record keeping" this stupid man wants the Governor to legislate to clarify. I swear, if these people get any more stupid, we're going to have to ship them someplace safe for their own good.
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It was a whole whopping four years ago that Kim Davis suddenly was washed afresh in all this righteous newfound Christianity (who wants to bet that there's so many skeletons in what's "washed away" it'd look like a Dia de Muertos parade?). BTW, I believe unless her current husband IS the same man she first married, according to the bible she's living in adultery, and, thus, the sin would not be "washed free," she'd still be in it. If husband # 2 and husband # 4 are the same guy as has been reported, she'd still be living in adultery on those terms.
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It seems like a good tactic, but you are not going to get much traction trying to elevate the sins of adultery, divorice, and cohabitation without benefit of clergy to the same level as the sin of homosexuality in the hearts and minds of far-right fundamentalist Christians (and Jews) --- in order to convince them of their hypocrisy.
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I suppose anyone in this country may hold any personal beliefs he or she chooses to hold as long as that belief system doesn't interfere with someone else and his or her belief system. I may believe murder is a sacred act, for instance, but I can't murder someone else because that would be an imposition. This woman chooses to hold a job as a public servant, but wants to impose her beliefs on the people to whom she is duty-bound to serve. To me, the solution is simple. She needs to quit (which she is completely free to do) or start issuing licenses to those who seek that service. Her logic of refusing to issue licenses because of her religion holds as much water as an public accountant saying, "I don't wanna use red ink in my books 'cause that's the culler o' Satan."

And by the way, while I agree that two adults can hold vastly different views on particular issues and still be close friends, I have a hard time with some of the protesters outside of this Kentucky office saying that Davis is friend as is just as sweet as she can be - which I read somewhere yesterday. I think it was in the NYT. How is that disconnect possible? I certainly couldn't call someone sweet or a friend if she said to me, "I like you as a friend, but you cannot have any of our city water," or, "You are a good person, but you're forbidden to use the library."
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From the US News & World Report article: Her colleague Casey Davis [no relation] says he won’t comply or resign, perhaps making himself the next local official to be sued. But it hasn’t come to that in Casey County. His higher-profile colleague is “from a larger county. There are more people there that practice that lifestyle,” he says.

I hope someone takes note of that remark. In other words "I expect I'll be able to get away with it because not as many people will be bothered."

In the meantime, the much-married hypocritical harlot (or MMHH) says she considers this a "heaven or hell decision." If it's worth risking your eternal soul over, isn't it worth quitting a job over? Or do you have to weigh the fate your eternal soul on the one hand vs. a government paycheck and government benefits on the other?
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Wait wait wait wait wait.

Didn't she just solve the whole problem? Just have a priest pop by daily to do a bit of absolution and she's good to go stampin' those licenses? Case closed!
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@14: ain't no priests when you're evangelical. ministers, preachers.

but I feel ya. I think all she has to do is be re-saved every sunday.
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Do county clerks handle divorces in Kentucky?

Because I'd sure love to know what Kim Davis would do if a gay couple petitioned her for a divorce. Would that comport with her religious beliefs, or offend them?
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This sad, miserable woman's life is like hillbilly bingo.
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I’d like to take a moment to recognize that the bucket of human excrement topped with the god-crazies called Kim Davis is a Democrat. She’s one of yours. Not mine.

“Democrat Kim Davis is among a handful of clerks who have refused to grant licenses to any couples in order to avoid handing them out to gays and lesbians.”

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/new…

I only point this out because Dan seems to have neglected to mention it...
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@18 - thanks. That totally balances out everything else, and invalidates all future complaints.
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@18 All that means is that she's a complete hypocrite.

And I hope her kids aren't like Charles II (Hapsburg) of Spain. ::shudder::
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@17: Hey, don't knock bingo. Gay bingo is fun. I can only imagine how fun hillbilly bingo would be. Better yet: gay hillbilly bingo
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That ignorant woman is being used as a fundraising tool by the scumbag organization representing her. They know she will be fined and jailed and her job lost. They also know she's their cash cow. She does an excellent nazi salute, though.
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Oh Please, This woman not as pure as the driven snow. Not another hypocrite. Place is crawling with them.
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I was going to start explaining how the logical mistake is not what sins she committed in the past but what sins she's still committing (signing off on other adulterous 2nd, 3rd, infinity marriages)...but then I just got tired at the futility of it all and put my head down on my desk.
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Hey, not to spread rumors or anything, but the fact that there are twins in the mix and multiple partners raises the possibility of heteropaternal superfecundation (look it up; its fraternal twins with two different fathers).
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I love it! How can anyone argue with Christian "logic" like... "her conversion to Christianity about four years ago wiped her slate clean"!?!

By this wacky reasoning, serial killers like John Gacy will be floating on the same Heavenly Cloud as the smarmy Rev's Robert Schuller & Joel Osteen & "Professor" George Rekers. After all, "He who believeth and is baptized shall be saved."

Christianity couldn't have survived for 2,000 years without bizarre circular reasoning like "God works in strange & wondrous ways" (to explain away horrific events like plane crashes; after all, they were just part of God's plan).

As for Kim Davis's miraculous absolution, in fact a careful reading of the Book of Deuteronomy leads us to the only possible Biblical outcome for this mess: Ms. Davis *must* be stoned to death, because she had sex out of marriage that led to the birth of her twins. I rest my case!
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So what keeps a Christian from doing truly heinous things if they believe that by praying to their god the slate will be wiped clean? And if "God" will forgive her sins, he'll surely understand that she's not condoning these same-sex marriages but just filling out the paperwork.
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There's also the bit about her daughter kidnapping a dog.
https://pageonekentucky.com/2015/07/10/u…
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Ugh, I can't believe I'm saying this but I can't get behind these personal attacks on this woman's marital history. This is a legal issue, and she is in the wrong, plain and simple. Why drag her sad, pitiful personal life into it? Christians already perceive themselves as persecuted, why engender pity for her?
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@30 - from the article, quoting an ACLU attorney working for one of the couples:
Weaver says she knows nothing about Davis' personal life.

"What I would say is she's entitled to her personal religious beliefs, but she cannot impose them on others through her job as a public official," she says. "Those other clerks that are refusing to issue marriage licenses should re-evaluate their strategy. They may find themselves embroiled in a lawsuit and facing contempt charges."


I like when people take the high road; but sometimes I like it because it makes room for more traffic on the low road :)
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@18 - Saying she's a Democrat in that part of Kentucky is essentially saying she's about an inch to the left of Himmler. Nothing "Democratic" about the party in that part of the world. You can have her right-wing religious nonsense right back, mister.
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Jesus' central teachings? What did Jesus ever say about homosexuality and marriage? Not a damn thing.
Kim Davis: not just a bigot, but a bigot who is ignorant about the New Testament.
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Timelines, Dan. (and #2 & #3). I'm betting that it's even more sordid than you say. The text said she gave birth five months AFTER the divorce, which means she got pregnant four months BEFORE the divorce. That is, she was cheating on Husband #1 (probably continuously) who divorced her when he found out she was pregnant with some other guy's kids. Then, rather than marrying the man who knocked her up, she finds herself another Good Provider type to support her, even cajoles him into adopting her little rugrats, all the while continuing to cheat with her lover. Lather rinse repeat. Husband #2 also finds out about Lover Boy and she gets dumped AGAIN. Even a slow learner can catch on eventually, so then and and only then she decides to try to make it legal with her sperm donor, rather than tricking husband after husband into being her financial patsy while keeping her piece on the side.
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Here we thought she was just anti-homosexual, but maybe she just really hates men.
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Is it me, or does she look like she's doing the "Heil Hitler!" gesture in that pic?
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First thing, if her dogma doesn't recognize her first divorce, ( and it only does under certain circumstances, and that wouldn't be her cheating it would be him) then she is still married to him and she is an adulterer. Second, you don't get to steal someone's money, be forgiven and keep the money. When she found her Jesus, four years ago, she should've left her adulterous affair, either move back with her true husband or lived a celibate life.
And to the Republican, pointing out that she's a Democrat, the fact that you have to stretch that far, demonstrates you're the one with the problem.
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So, if she's really got a magic Windex bottle, then she should just issue the damn licenses and the wipe away the sin afterward. It's worked for all her other sins. Why not this one?
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btmom - Actually, Jesus did comment regarding marriage and who should be involved. Matthew 19:4-5 says "Have ye not read that He which made them in the beginning made them male and female. And said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife : and they twain shall be one flesh."
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Even accepting that her conversion wiped her clean of the oft-repeated sin of violating the Commandment against adultery... Has it ever occurred to anyone that swearing an oath to serve the public, and then refusing to abide by that oath, counts as "bearing false witness"? Which is also one of those things that Kim Davis's version of God actually carved in stone as a "thou shalt not..."? So dismiss the adultery as a pre-Jesus-finding, cleansed-by-the-Lamb consideration if you want; all of her false-witness-bearing has happened SINCE her conversion. And I can't really imagine God, in His (literally) Infinite Wisdom, wouldn't give a wee bit of side-eye at someone breaking one of the Ten Commandments and using "God's law" as the excuse.
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Her SON works in the office and is ALSO objecting to providing licenses. Where is he in this family tree?
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@42, That family tree is shaped more like a wheel. It just goes around in circles.
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I'm loving all of the comments here ,but also love the fact that everyone glossed over the fact she already "committed the sin" of marrying a Transgender Man XD
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@42 - the US News & World Report article says Casey Davis is no relation: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015…

Unless that's been updated.
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@ 45, She's totally his sister-mother and everyone now knows it.
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Not only did she find three men who would marry her. She lands this job making 80,000 a year. That's right this dim bulb makes 80 grand a year. That's more than a two - three year law student makes by far. And now you know Life Time is getting the movie cameras ready for her story of defending Gods word at her personal danger.
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"christians" - doing what they do best, being a bunch of hypocrites.
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Hey Dan,

I know you were reluctant to give more media attention to Kim's attention-seeking stunt. How about using your media empire to change the conversation now, by profiling the couples that have now been able to get married in Kentucky. The spotlight should be on them, and their happiness, not on the ugly old troll that stood in their way.
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@49 - Aren't you extinct?

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