The story of Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky county
clerk who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,
goes on. The latest is, she evidently thinks she can skirt the ruling by a
judge that she perform her job and issue the marriage licenses. So marriage
licenses being issued by her office are having her name and even the name of
the county whited-out; this, in Ms. Davis' view, makes them invalid, so her
conscience can be clear because, according to her logic, she is not issuing the
licenses.
If Ms. Davis has a conflict between her conscience and the
duties of the job she was elected to perform, and which she took an oath to
perform, it would seem that the simple answer would be for her to resign her
job.
But she won't. Maybe she's enjoying the present situation
too much to want to just silently pass from our sight.
I don't doubt that she's enjoying her fame (or notoriety);
it seems she's getting more than her 15 minutes' worth of fame. With support
from her Liberty Council lawyers, and Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate,
beside her, she can sob into the cameras and microphones and savor her new fame
as the new darling of the Religious Right and the poster child for claims of
"persecution of Christians." (She claims she and her family have
received death threats but I'm at least a little bit skeptical of that.)
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