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NBC News reports: Pope Francis appeared to weigh in on the side of anti-gay-marriage clerk Kim Davis, saying government workers have a “human right” to refuse to carry out a duty if they have a “conscientious objection.” While returning from his visit to the U.S., the pontiff told reporters aboard the papal plane Monday that anyone who prevents others from …

This weekend at the Values Voter Summit, Liberty Counsel head Mat Staver told the assembled crackpots that 100,000 Peruvians gathered in a Lima stadium to pray for Kim Davis. Staver showed the audience the photo in this post as proof of the event. That sent internet sleuths scrambling for evidence that this actually happened and you’ll be SHOCKED to learn …

The usually moderate John McCain took the side of Kim Davis yesterday at the Values Voter Summit. Talking Points Memo reports: “I think she was right in that she can exercise the dictates of her conscience and everyone should respect that,” McCain said. “I do not believe that therefore she should violate the law. She should have just said, ‘I …

Even though the ACLU and their plaintiffs stipulated that they didn’t want Kim Davis put in jail the first time, hate group leader Austin Ruse claims one Kentucky couple is working to have her arrested again. He writes: Two sources close to Kentucky country clerk Kim Davis tell Breitbart News that the gay men whose demand for a marriage license …

Raw Story recaps last night’s show: Bill Maher ended Friday night’s episode of Real Time with a New Rules segment that slammed Republican role models gone wrong. “Republicans have to stop being surprised when their instant heroes turn out to be embarrassments,” Maher said. “They’re so anxious to buddy-up to the forgotten good people that when a Kim Davis or …

Hate group leader Austin Ruse writes at Breitbart: Huckabee showed a bit of frustration with the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood because he wants much more. He invoked the 42 years since Roe V. Wade and said he intended to raise the personhood of the unborn child in the Constitution. He also made a pitch to overturn judicial supremacy. “I …

The Slate recaps last night’s show: “I think everyone should love whoever they want,” Colbert said. “So, I was miffed when Kentucky County Clerk and forehead magnate Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But I also felt bad for her when that judge sent her to jail and even worse when she was sentenced to send …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council introduced Kim Davis at the Values Voter Summit this evening, where the Kentucky county clerk received the Cost of Discipleship Award for prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in repeated violation of court orders. “These are …

Kim Davis has switched her party affiliation, doubtlessly to earn even greater applause when she receives her Martyr For Jesus Award tonight at Duggar Fest 2015. Reuters reports: “My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we …

Kentucky county clerk Casey Davis is jealous of all the attention being heaped on Kim Davis (no relation, allegedly), but so far he hasn’t gotten the chance to turn any gay couples away. Casey Davis says he is willing to accept the same consequences as Kim Davis. He says he’s fully prepared to deny marriage licenses to gay couples. So …

It turns out that there’s a least one gay person who says he used to be a friend of Kim Davis. These days – he’s not so sure. Via the Daily Beast: Dallas Black of Morehead, Kentucky called The Daily Beast after a fruitless search for the anti-gay marriage clerk said she had gay friends in an interview on Good …

“In 2003, Justice Kennedy, in the Lawrence opinion of the Supreme Court, wrote that liberty is ‘the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.’ That was not only bad metaphysics but blatant legal positivism; a philosophy which says, in effect, that the law is what the court …

Move over Ted Cruz, you’ve got company. Via the New York Daily News: Kim Davis was apparently the inspiration for a character in a new exotic novella that finds lesbian love after she’s jailed for taking a religious stand on marriage. The author, Lilith St. Augustine, is using her creative writing skills to poke fun at Davis, the Kentucky county …

Put up the Bat Signal because Kim Davis is Gotham City on her way to getting her Martyr For Jesus Award at Duggar Fest in DC. Tonight she appeared on Fox where she evaded Megyn Kelly’s direct questions on whether non-Christians should get the same religious accommodations she is demanding. Here’s how Davis responded: “You have millions of Christians who …

The Liberty Counsel’s batting record STILL stands at 0.000.

Shortly after President Obama told Pope Francis that the United States cherishes religious liberty, Mike Huckabee posted the above tweet with an attached Vine video which juxtaposes Obama’s words over the mugshot of Kim Davis. In other news, Huckabee knows what Vine is.

Liberty Counsel radio host Matt Barber, who regularly publishes columns by advocates for the death penalty for homosexuality, says that gays threaten to kill anybody who doesn’t affirm their “pagan sexuality.” Kyle Mantyla has the full quote at Right Wing Watch: “This whole saga,” he said, “is reminiscent of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19 … The …

Yesterday Kim Davis told ABC News that she not only has gay friends, she’s personally denied them a marriage license.  The search for these alleged friends is now on. First, let’s hear from Kentucky Equality: Does Kim Davis have gay friends whom she has denied marriage licenses as she claimed to ABC’s Good Morning America? Are you one of her …

ABC News is spreading their Kim Davis interview across several shows, starting with GMA this morning, then The View, with more to come tonight on Nightline. A few days ago Mat Staver twice outrageously claimed that somebody on The View had called for Davis to be killed, but sadly they did not address that lie today. According to ABC reporter …

Another Kim Davis interview is out this afternoon and this one is with Todd Starnes, so of course it’s Chock-Full-O’Jesus. Starnes writes: Mrs. Davis is a follower of the Apostolic Christian faith and a devoutly religious woman. She is uncomfortable in the public spotlight. “I’ve been called Hitler, a homophobe, a hypocrite — words I didn’t even use when I was …