Marriage Equality

Those of you predicting the immediate rearrest of Kim Davis will have to wait until at least Friday, as she is taking a couple of Personal Jesus days. In the meantime there’s a flotilla of national press milling around rural Kentucky with nothing to do for at least 48 hours.

The Christian Post reports: Ben Carson modified his position on Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and now says the government has a responsibility to accommodate her religious beliefs. Carson, a longtime advocate for traditional marriage, said that Kim Davis’ beliefs should be protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees the …

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a blistering denouncement of Kim Davis for TIME Magazine. An excerpt: Americans have a long history of using religion to rationalize atrocious behavior. Confederate President Jefferson Davis echoed many Civil War Southerners when he validated slavery by claiming that it “was established by decree of Almighty God…it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both …

Kentucky’s Carter County has ordered the closures of five schools today because the 3PM Kim Davis hate rally might bring too much traffic for parents and school buses to transport students home. So ridiculous. Let’s spin it this way: Why does Mike Huckabee want to deprive children of an education?

Yesterday the Liberty Counsel filed an emergency motion to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, demanding that he release Kim Davis from jail. This morning Beshear told the Liberty Counsel to suck it, saying that he will not even respond to their motion. BOOM!

Clip recap: “Anti-Christian persecution begins. Members of The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property travel to Kentucky and find avid support for Kim Davis, a county clerk who was unjustly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.”

“Imagine if there was a whole army of Kim Davises turning away same-sex couples at every level of government, and there was no way to make them to obey the law. That’s just what Congress is considering: a bill that would create unlimited Kim Davis copycats across the entire country. Not only would it let anyone refuse to recognize same-sex …

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel: Today, on behalf of Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, Liberty Counsel filed a request for an order providing relief pending appeal against Gov. Steven Beshear at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal. This is an emergency request for the Governor to accommodate Kim’s religious conviction, which would free her from jail. “Today …

Via South Dakota’s Fox affiliate: Sunday, history was made as same–sex couples gathered under the Mount Rushmore National Monument, to celebrate national marriage equality. The event, organized by the women who challenged South Dakota’s ban on same–sex marriages, took place in the amphitheater of the memorial, something that has never been done before. Nancy Rosenbrahn, who sued the state along …

The Liberty Counsel today filed notice that they are appealing the contempt ruling that has jailed Kim Davis since Thursday. Reuters reports: “The contempt order itself was unlawful,” Roger Gannam, a lawyer for Davis, told Reuters. Gannam is an attorney with Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian religious advocacy organization that said it would back her legal fight. The notice of …

George Stephanopoulos today asked Mike Huckabee if he would resign the presidency over gay marriage. Huckabee dodged the question, saying that would never happen because there’s no such thing. Mediaite recaps: Stephanopoulos asked Huckabee exactly what’s the difference between Davis’ actions and refusing to issue interracial marriage licenses. Huckabee insisted it’s totally different because interracial marriage doesn’t “redefine” the institution of …

“If John Cox had just gotten 4% more of the vote – which in Morehead, Kentucky is like, what, six people – if John Cox had just tied a Baja Blast on a string to a stick and lured some hillbillies out of their mobile meth lab and down to the voting stump – we would not be watching Kim …

Another ode to Kim Davis, this time set to Chicago’s Cell Block Tango.

The Lexington Courier-Journal reports: Hundreds of people gathered outside the Carter County Detention Center on Saturday and prayed for jailed Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was locked up just a few hundred feet away. “She won’t bow, I promise you,” her husband, Joe Davis, told the crowd while dressed in overalls and a camouflage ball cap. He said he …

Remember when the haters “celebrated” the tenth anniversary of the Texas ban on same-sex marriage? An anniversary which never came? Here’s some REALLY delicious cake for them: The attorneys for same-sex couples who successfully challenged Texas’ gay marriage ban in federal court are seeking nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in fees and costs from the state. In a 27-page …

You’ll enjoy this. Crooks & Liars has the recap: Chris Hayes is getting better at dealing with all-out crazy people on his show, but I won’t lie — this is still painful to watch. Liberty Counsel director Mat Staver, who is Kim Davis’ attorney, appeared to cry a river on Hayes’ show over Davis’ continued incarceration. At one point, he …

JMG reader TampaDink points us to this rollicking ode to Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. Everybody sing!

Kyle Mantyla recaps at Right Wing Watch: While [Glenn] Beck said that he sympathizes with Davis, he cannot understand why she has not been fired for refusing to do her job. Barton, predictably, responded by asserting that Davis is entirely in the right to refuse to allow her office to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because “the Founding Fathers …

Breitbart legal editor Ken Klukowski used to be the “Director Of Religious Liberty” at the Family Research Council and these days he’s the senior counsel at the equally foul Liberty Institute. Therefore you’ll likely be surprised at his latest column at Breitbart. He writes: As Breitbart News explained earlier this week, Davis is not merely claiming a First Amendment right …

“What happens if a clerk doesn’t approve of a couple that wants to get married? Can a clerk keep their job AND follow their conscience?”