Imaginary or not, I don't see the point of dismissing Christians or other religious people solely on the basis of their religious beliefs. It seems that those who criticize the so-called NALTS will always ignore the Christians who actually do take action against injustice and bigotry but just don't get the headlines like Davis.

Here's one cool response:
https://twitter.com/Bipartisanism/status…

It's a tweet of a church sign that says, "We truly regret that gay marriage attacks the sanctity of your fourth marriage," and the caption is "Real Christians have a message for #KimDavis."

Isn't this actually the Karl Rove playbook? Attack the opponent's strength? The RWNJs' claim to righteousness is their version of Christianity, and it would be a good strategy for Christians and non-Christians alike to undermine that claim. When Ellen Page engaged Ted Cruz last weekend, Cruz pulled the same old crap that "as a Christian" he cannot support gay marriage, and I wish Page, for all the points she scored, had rejected that binary and told him he was being Unchristian. With Kim Davis and her ilk claiming that their opposition is a matter of salvation, we should be telling them that they are going to hell if they stand against loving couples' happiness like that

I trust this is the last I'll read of that vile old hag.

Sadly, that place is no Sodom and Gomorrah, which would be lots more fun and much much less fugly. Honestly, does it even have a beauty salon? I'm amazed they have gay people! What do non bigots find to do there? Is there even a bookstore?
Her husband seems to have lots of time off from work. Maybe that's the answer to the mystery how such as she could have managed to get married: her civil seevice paycheck!

*service

Congratulations to the happy and successful couples!

What really struck my about this whole sad and not yet over affair is how utterly self-centered Kathy Davis has acted and presented. Aside from perfunctory statements about not being against the people she was hurting, which actually illustrate her callousness, she disregards the duties of her job, the principles of her country, the lives and feelings and worth of the people wanting marriage licenses, the agency and well-being of her employees and her family. But she also disregards the spirit of her faith. She shows no compassion for anyone. No empathy. Her stand claims to be for religious principles, but her reason doesn't even seem real when she says it. It sounds flat, obstinate, and all about her.

This is a woman with a small mind and a narrow, self-interested tribalistic approach to life. She claims to be acting on principle, but she is, in truth, unprincipled. This is a dangerous person to have in any position of power, even a small one, as this case shows. Maybe she joined this strange, apostolic cultic Christianity which requires conspicuous modesty, obstinately proud humility, and self-importance through service, as a way to detail with her own inadequacy and self-loathing through ceding her own agency and lifting herself up by climbing on the perceived sins of others. It may have helped her live with herself. But it certainly hasn't led her to good works. She is a sad creature so wrapped up in her own ego that she may not even understand her own viciousness.

@BettyBowers:
THE LATEST FROM THE KENTUCKY SLAMMER NEWS: Inmate Kim Davis's refusing to make license plates for gays or gals without three "test husbands"

I'm wondering where the Freedom from Religion folks have been throughout all of this. Try to put up a crèche or a menorah on public property and they're papering the courts with lawsuits; Kim Davis tries to establish a theocracy in her county and there's nary a peep.

Interesting, eh?

@1, We're not "dismissing Christians or other religious people solely on the basis of their religious beliefs". We're dismissing "Christians" solely on the basis of their insistence that we all must live by their religious beliefs. If Kim Davis believed that all gays were going to hell and that their marriage was meaningless in the eyes of God but did her fucking job and signed the paper that the couple met all the legal requirements for marriage, which they did, then nobody would know her name.

I think she's just stubborn to the point that she allowed herself to be jailed.

Dawww. That clerk seemed genuinely happy for the couple. Congrats, guys!

@1: " will always ignore the Christians who actually do take action against injustice and bigotry but just don't get the headlines like Davis. "

Being a good person is its own reward.

Grandstanding for not violating someone's human rights is a bit narcissistic.

And if you want to blame anyone for this, talk to the media, which loves the Westboro Baptists more than any other Christian group, based on coverage.

Non-snarky reply, I have to go to Patheos and ReligiousLeftLaw for any discussion of left-leaning Christian thought and action, but is there really much discussion of secular leftst thought and action in the national media either? I need to look elsewhere for that as well.

Everyone who knows me would happily tell you I'm horrendously stubborn, but I wouldn't go to jail over what I think my imaginary friends do or don't approve of. She's not just stubborn, she's stupid.

@15: She wants to be a martyr, prison or being recalled was always the end goal.

It allows her to try to get some bigot bucks, a few minutes of fame, and it satisifes her need to feel persecuted and a victim, a cornerstone of modern Christianity.

I can't dismiss all Christians on the basis of their beliefs because of the truly good ones there are out there. Jimmy Carter? Pro choice, he's for gay rights, he's a champion of women's rights, and he was a southern Baptist minister! He even broke away from that particular denomination because of the hatred they spewed. I also have amazingly loving, supportive, progressive Christians in my family that try to be a Carter-style Christian, rather than a Davis-style Christian. And they don't even give me shit for being an atheist. In my family's case at least, they're sick of these dickbags giving modern-day Christians a bad name, but at the same time, maybe they should be out there raising a stink and using their voices to let the world know that Christian is not synonymous with ignorant, hatefilled douchebag.

Verily, she shall amass boatloads of trailer-trash cash and prove yet again what a bunch of fuckwits there are in Flyover JeebusLand.

Congrats to all who got their licenses today. Congrats to the Rowan County Clerk deputies who grew a pair ( with help from a judge ) and did their jobs today.

Here's wishing that Davis drops the soap in the showers real soon. Orange is the new black is your new life, Snowflake.

@11. I noticed the same thing. What struck me was after all the hostility his boss showed these couples, that he shook hands with both men, and seemed genuinely pleased to have issued their marriage license. While I don't want to read too much into his actions, one does hope that this is how hearts and minds are changed; through simple human interaction.

Is it possible to put the Huckster® in jail to keep Kimmie company?

Great, a President who doesn't follow the rule of law. Or even be seen to.
Not that those twerps will get to be President. I cry that people thinking like that, are trying to be President.

Congratulations to you guys. Happy life together.